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Many companies are concerned about whether their ads will be placed next to racist or otherwise hateful speech.

Edward Perez says that “manufactured chaos” by bad actors will be even riskier thanks to Elon Musk’s own mayhem.

Free Press’ Nora Benavidez talks to Democracy Now! about how Musk has exacerbated already-toxic conditions at Twitter.

Concerns are growing that tumult inside Twitter in the first week after it was acquired by Elon Musk could weaken its safeguards for elections.

The activists, however, weren’t fazed — and neither were legal experts, who scoffed at the threat.

Free Press Co-CEO Jessica J. González pushed back on Musk’s claim that content-moderation rules — an operation she said was already “dangerously underresourced” — had not changed.

One lawsuit has already been filed, and experts expect more to come.

Free Press is urging companies to suspend their advertising on the platform in response to the sweeping layoffs, which have gutted entire teams.

"Twitter was already a hellscape before Musk took over. His actions in the past week will only make it worse," said Free Press Co-CEO Jessica J. González.

Leaders say the layoffs undermine the commitments Musk made to the groups to keep safety and election-integrity measures in place on the platform ahead of Election Day.