In an interview with The Babylon Bee, Elon Musk He discussed censorship in private companies, especially large corporations like Google, and whether laws should be passed to protect users’ free speech from private companies.

Asked about the possibility of creating laws that protect users’ free speech from private companies, which some compare or say is inspired by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which aims to protect citizens’ free speech in the face of government censorship, Musk responded that there is a lot of censorship , which people don’t realize and that most of them come from Google, Instagram and Facebook.

To be more specific, Musk said in relation to Google, Instagram and Facebook that “there is a lot of suppression of secrecy on Facebook, Instagram and Google. It’s continuous covert suppression.”. He stressed about the methods used shadow ban or banishment in the shadows, which in the context and according to the billionaire consists in carrying out practices such as place the link on the fifth page of the search to remove visibility page or website. Whether this claim is true or not, it is a likely scenario given the strong dominant position Google has in the search engine sector.



In addition, Elon Musk also noted that it would be good if the companies behind the social networks published their algorithm, following the example of Twitter itself. Continuing with the company he still runs (and will most likely continue to run from the shadows), he said that the developers they found a hidden layer of censorship that was written in 2012. While it is acknowledged that “censorship is perhaps the wrong word”, it was essentially an algorithm that eliminated any tweet that contained any of the thousand words present on its list.

Twitter developers according to Musk’s version They found not only an algorithm with a list of words that removed tweets, but also another with a list of URLs that were removed.. If all the data revealed by the tycoon is true, it would be clear that the platforms are censoring according to their interests, which is obviously not helped by the opaque way they usually work. In fact, Google itself has accepted government pressure to reveal its algorithms.

Many large Internet services can be given little trust, especially if their main source of income is advertising, which must be targeted to be truly effective.