Last November, Pablo Breuer had been working from home in Baltimore when Elon Musk shared a report on X accusing him of designing a sweeping censorship regime to silence rightwing voices.
The article in question claimed Breuer was one of the instrumental figures in the birth of the “Censorship Industrial Complex” — a concerted effort across more than 100 government agencies and non-governmental organisations to stifle free speech in the US and the UK.
It was co-authored by Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, known for their part in the “Twitter Files”, in which X owner Musk invited journalists to trawl through internal documents about the platform’s past content moderation decisions.