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> The innovative community notes feature...

... was built and released pre-Musk, when it was called "Birdwatch".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Notes

As for government requests, for every Brazil there's an India. https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja...

"Twitter accounts from over 100 prominent politicians, activists, and journalists in India and abroad have been blocked in India at the request of the government. On Monday, the account of the BBC News Punjabi was also blocked — the second time in a few months that the Indian government has used Twitter to throttle BBC services in its country."

"At the time that Musk took charge of the company, it had a mere 20 percent compliance rate with Indian government requests. Following massive layoffs that reduced 90 percent of Twitter India’s staff, the platform appears to have become far more obliging in the face of government pressure, as its actions to censor its critics now show."



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