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As riots intensify in the UK, Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform formerly known as X, has begun making inflammatory statements about the situation, such as calling “civil war inevitable.”
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The CEOs alphabet, Meta and Microsoft On Wednesday, he’ll head to Capitol Hill for a hearing on election intimidation, but Elon Musk’s X won’t be there.
A representative for Sen. Mark R. Warner, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in an emailed statement that Mr. X “refused to present appropriate witnesses.” He gave no further details.
A Company X spokesperson told CNBC that the witness it called was Nick Pickles, who was head of international operations but “resigned on September 6th.” Warner’s office said Company X declined to send a replacement witness after Pickles’ resignation.
The hearing is entitled “Foreign Threats to the 2024 Elections: The Role and Responsibility of US Technology Companies”. Alphabet will be represented by President and Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker, while the social networking company will be represented by Meta’s head of international affairs Nick Clegg. Software giant Microsoft will be represented by CEO Brad Smith.
The hearing, led by Sen. Warner (D-Va.) and committee vice chairman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), is centered on lawmakers’ concerns about foreign entities using the largest tech platforms to try to influence the outcome of November’s presidential election.
Alphabet and Microsoft recently released findings about the activities of Iranian and Russian hacker groups attempting to influence or attack officials with ties to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, using a variety of tactics including spear phishing.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration Targeting A Russian government-sponsored attempt to influence American public opinion.
“We will relentlessly combat and thwart attempts by Russia, Iran, China, and other foreign malign forces to interfere in our election and undermine lawmakers,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement at the time.
X’s absence from Wednesday’s hearing comes amid a string of controversial posts on Twitter, an app bought by Musk, the world’s richest man, in 2022. Musk has nearly 200 million followers.
Musk spoke after the second assassination attempt on former Republican President Donald Trump over the weekend. post They question why there haven’t been more assassination threats against President Biden and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. Assassination threats Currently employed.
European Press Also reported It was revealed this week that Musk had previously shared content on X created by the Social Design Agency, a firm that led propaganda campaigns at the direction of the Kremlin, according to the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
On Wednesday, Musk said Share X ran a false story about explosives being found in a car near a planned Trump rally in Long Island, New York. Nassau County PoliceCivilians near the rally site falsely reported finding explosives.
Warner said early in the meeting on Wednesday afternoon that it was “disappointing” that no one from Company X was in attendance. He said Company X had been a “collaborator” prior to Musk’s acquisition.
“Under X, they were absent and some of the most egregious behavior took place on the platform,” Warner said.
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