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

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

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.

Until Musk invests in staff who can robustly enforce Twitter’s existing community standards, the platform will not be safe for advertisers or users.

A coalition of civil-rights groups is escalating a call for brands to halt spending on the platform in light of what they see as inflammatory rhetoric and problematic policy changes from Musk.

“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.

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.

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

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.