Foresight News reports, according to Cointelegraph, Musk is facing widespread opposition for announcing upcoming changes to the algorithm of the X social media platform. These changes are intended to prioritize content deemed informative or educational, rather than other types of content. Musk stated that these planned changes are to address the 'excessive negative sentiment' on the social media platform. He said, 'Our goal is to maximize the user's regret-free usage time. Currently, there is too much content driven by negative sentiment, which does technically increase user engagement time, but not regret-free usage time.'
Users of the X platform have described this algorithm change as a form of censorship and questioned who exactly Musk believes should decide what counts as 'negative sentiment' on the platform.