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Allie Funk

Allie Funk

Allie Funk is a Research Director for Technology and Democracy at Freedom House, where she focuses on free expression, privacy, surveillance, and censorship. She leads Freedom House's technology and democracy initiative, including Freedom on the Net, Election Watch for the Digital Age, and work related to protecting a free and open internet.

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How Elon Musk’s Twitter Could Boost State Censorship

By Allie Funk · May 5, 2022 9:00 AM PDT
Elon Musk, framing his planned acquisition of Twitter as a bid to uphold free speech online, has called for the platform to roll back its content moderation efforts. Failure to do so, he claims, would “fundamentally undermine democracy.” Last week, the billionaire investor and entrepreneur clarified his definition of free speech as... Elon Musk, framing his planned acquisition of Twitter as a bid to uphold free speech online, has...