nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/0db298323048f15a DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250117s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/0db298323048f15a doi eng 342 23 van de Kerkhof, Jacob Author aut Musk, Techbrocracy, and Free Speech van de Kerkhof, Jacob Verfassungsblog 2025-01-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In this blogpost, I situate and address Musk’s position within the broader EU debate on freedom of expression. The purpose of this symposium is to elucidate aspects that make Musk, his influence, and his provocations to the EU legal order, problematic under EU law, and, should we consider his influence as unwanted, harmful or illegal, whether EU law can provide answers to it. This post centres on three points: (i) Musk’s changes to X’s content moderation process, (ii) Musk’s usage of X to amplify select political candidates and (iii) Musk’s ownership of Starlink. It ends with a note on how this fits in a grander theme, which has been dubbed by commentators such as Paul Bernal as the ‘techbrocracy’. CC BY-SA 4.0 DSA Free spech Musk Musk Elon | 1971– | Unternehmer; Investor Plutocracy (DE-588)1062481119 gnd Musk Elon | 1971– | Unternehmer; Investor Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/musk-techbrocracy-and-free-speech/ raw object