Musk reinstated Trump’s account in November 2022 after a poll, followed by many accounts suspended under the old regime. [1] He expanded Community Notes, a crowd-sourced fact-check system whose notes appear only when raters who usually disagree both find them helpful. [2]
In April 2023 X stated its policy plainly: posts that break rules but are not removed may have their reach limited, with labels on some. [3] That is visibility filtering, the practice Weiss exposed in Part 2, now acknowledged rather than hidden. X’s transparency reports show it continued to remove, label and limit large volumes of content and accounts. [4]
The honest summary is not “X stopped moderating.” X changed what it moderates, disclosed more about how, and kept the core tools.
