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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.

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

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.

Fox News, Comcast and others have been working hard to sabotage the nomination of longtime public servant Gigi Sohn.

In response to a barrage of disinformation on Spanish-language talk radio, a new media company has embarked on a push to control 18 radio stations.

The agency must conduct a thorough investigation of the roots of these outages. This is especially critical in light of the ever-worsening climate crisis.

Civil-rights and civil-society leaders will hold an emergency press conference to announce an escalation of the #StopToxicTwitter campaign and to issue an urgent call to Twitter’s largest advertisers to pause their buys on the platform.

Misinformation about the midterms offers another reminder of how conspiracy theories and distrust are shaping U.S. politics.

The call with civil-rights leaders came after a spike in antisemitism and racism on Twitter.

A Free Press report shows that tech platforms are ill-prepared for handling political disinformation ahead of the vote.