Elon Musk on Sunday mentioned that he will foot the legal invoice with none restrict for X (previously Twitter) customers if their employers treated them unfairly as a consequence of posting or liking one thing controversial on the platform.
In a tweet, the tech billionaire mentioned: “If you have been unfairly treated by your employer as a consequence of posting or liking one thing on this platform, we will fund your legal invoice.”
He added: “No restrict. Please tell us.”
This is the primary time the X proprietor has tweeted one thing like this to the customers on the platform, who at occasions confronted points at their employers’ finish as a consequence of posting or liking tweets that weren’t nice with them or the organisation.
A consumer posted that Kara Lynne, now buyer relations supervisor at Rippaverse Comics, was fired for following the “Libs of TikTok” account, to which Musk requested: “Kara, is that correct?
She replied: “The state of affairs is barely extra sophisticated than the headline. But sure.”
Another Musk follower tweeted: “The combat for free speech has solely simply begun.”
The Tesla CEO has beforehand mentioned that he’s a “free-speech absolutist”.
He has promised to fight censorship on the social media platform after he acquitted it for $44 billion in October final yr.
Meanwhile, Musk has mentioned that X Corp has no plans to launch crypto tokens sooner or later and “we by no means will.”
(With inputs from IANS)