🚨 UPDATE: Elon Musk has infuriated foreign governments by making PUBLIC any and all censorship required by governments in open source
"Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible." 💯
The censors hate this.
Thank you, @ElonMusk 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/3EgN5XwIdY
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 15, 2026
Elon Musk’s announcement that government censorship and content removal requests are now visible through X’s open-source algorithm and public filters like Brazil2026ElectionFilter.
This builds on prior commitments to open-source recommendation code, allowing public inspection of how government-linked moderation affects visibility in feeds and searches.
X continues high compliance rates with takedown requests (83-98.8%), but the change shifts from private handling to documented transparency in the algorithm repository.
Factcheck: True. Elon Musk posted the exact quote after X open-sourced its For You algorithm on GitHub. It now includes public code for government-mandated filters, such as the Brazil 2026 election restriction that limits candidate posts from recommendations unless followed. The censorship rules are visible in the source.