マスク氏、Ｘ利用者に訴訟費用提供の意向　雇用主から不当扱いで

【サンフランシスコＡＦＰ＝時事】ＳＮＳ大手Ｘ（旧ツイッター）のオーナーであるイーロン・マスク氏は５日、企業従業員らがＸへの投稿をめぐり雇用主から不当な扱いを受けた場合、訴訟費用を提供する意向を示した。（写真はイーロン・マスク氏〈資料写真〉）
　マスク氏はＸへの書き込みで「投稿したり『いいね』を押したりして雇用主から不当に扱われた場合、訴訟費用を提供する」と表明。「上限は設けない。連絡を」と呼び掛けた。
　費用の請求方法について、具体的な方法は示されていない。
　マスク氏が前身のツイッターを昨年１０月に買収して以来、同社の広告収入は激減。ヘイトスピーチ（憎悪表現）の排除に消極的な姿勢や、これまで凍結していた極右アカウントを復活させたことなどが背景にあるとみられている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/08/07-16:19）

Elon Musk on Saturday said his social media company X would provide monetary legal aid to users who face blowback from their bosses over posts on the platform.
Users, including many celebrities and others in the public eye, have occasionally found themselves in hot water with their employers over controversial things they have posted, liked, or retweeted on the platform, which was formerly known as Twitter.
If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill, he wrote on the site.
No limit. Please let us know.
Musk gave no details on how users could claim their money.
Since the tycoon bought the social media platform for $44 billion last October, its advertising business has collapsed, in part because of its looser approach to blocking hate speech, and the return of previously banned far-right accounts.
Musk has repeatedly cited a desire for free speech as motivating his changes, and lashed out at what he sees as the threat posed to free expression by changing cultural sensitivities.
According to nonprofit organisation the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), hate speech has flourished at the platform.
X has disputed the findings and is suing the CCDH.
In December, Musk reinstated former US president Donald Trump's Twitter account, although Trump has yet to return to the platform.
The ex-president was banned from Twitter in early 2021 for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by a group of his supporters seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
X recently reinstated rapper and designer Kanye West around eight months after his account was suspended, according to media reports.
Last fall, West, who now goes professionally by Ye, posted an image that appeared to show a swastika interlaced with a Star of David, and Musk suspended the artist from the platform.