This illustration picture created on July 24 reveals the Twitter hen brand within the background of the X account of Elon Musk.

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This illustration picture created on July 24 reveals the Twitter hen brand within the background of the X account of Elon Musk.

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Elon Musk mentioned X, previously referred to as Twitter, will cowl the authorized prices of anybody who will get in hassle with their boss for his or her exercise on his social media platform.

“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill,” Musk wrote Saturday on X.

The tech billionaire additional promised there was “no limit” on the quantity the corporate could be prepared to pay — regardless of plunging promoting income and a rising menace to X from Meta’s newly unveiled Twitter-like platform, Threads.

The provide was lauded on the platform, receiving over 100,000 retweets and over 400,000 likes as of Sunday afternoon. But Musk, who has lengthy used his account to impress, joke and troll, has but to supply particulars on how customers can request help or what precisely might be thought of unfair remedy.

Just a few hours later, Musk wrote on X {that a} proposed fight between him and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is within the works and the proceeds will go to veterans — although specifics concerning the occasion or which charity would profit have but to be detailed. The two social media moguls started bluffing a couple of match over the summer season after Musk received phrase that Zuckerberg could be launching Threads.

Whether or not Musk’s fulfills his pledge to cowl authorized prices, it speaks to his long-held issues over free speech and censorship. Meanwhile, throughout his management, the platform’s proprietor has briefly suspended several journalists who lined the corporate and banned an account that tracked the actions of his non-public jet utilizing publicly obtainable info.