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A photo of Elon Musk with the Twitter logo in the background in Washington, D.C., the United States, October 4, 2022. /CFP
All social media firms work with the U.S. government to censor content, Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed on Tuesday, saying that "Google frequently makes links disappear."
"*Every* social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government," he wrote on Twitter.
A screenshot of Elon Musk's Twitter account.
Musk's post refers to an internal Twitter communication disclosed by journalist Matt Taibbi in Twitter documents titled "Twitter and other government agencies."
In a series of Tweets, Taibbi explained how Twitter executives regularly met with members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and were given lists of "hundreds of problem accounts" to suspend during the country's 2020 presidential election period.
A screenshot of Journalist Matt Taibbi's Twitter account
Except for Twitter, the U.S. government also made contact "with virtually every major tech firm," Taibbi tweeted. "These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest."
Documents released by Musk after he bought Twitter also showed that "the platform colluded with the FBI, CIA, Pentagon and other government agencies to suppress information on elections, Ukraine and the pandemic," Fox Business reported on Tuesday.
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