Elon Musk complied with the Turkish government request to censor the accounts of the election opponents of President Tayyip Erdogan. Muck has enacted 30 percent more government requests for censorship than his predecessor. (Business Insider, May 13, 2023, by Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert)
A host of critics blasted Musk for his hypocrisy in declaring Twitter a free speech stronghold then regularly shutting down speech. Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg posted on Twitter that if Twitter were shut down entirely then the Turkish people could understand more of how their authoritarian government works but to just shut down the opposition doesn’t do it. (Mediate, May 13, 2023, by Jennifer Bowers Bahney)