Elon Musk has announced that his micro-blogging social media app X will pay the legal fees for users who are unfairly targeted by employers due to something they liked or posted on the website, which was formerly known as Twitter.
In a post on X, Musk said, “If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill.” He added that the funding would be without limits.
Musk had posted late last month that X had achieved a “new high” in monthly active users, posting a graph which indicated the latest headcount on the site was at over 540 million users.
The stat was dropped by the CEO amid a reorganization of the platform, as Musk begins to transform it from a social media site, to a more complex “everything app” which will handle banking, shopping, travel, texting, communications, and other functions, in addition to social media.
The metric was just the latest assertion by an executive at the company which touted the platform’s traction among users, following the launch of a competing platform on July 5th by rival social media company Meta Platforms, which named its app Threads. Although Threads showed a strong initial launch, use dropped off rapidly after a week, with 82 percent of active daily users abandoning the platform since its debut.
In July, Musk brought 17 years of Twitter’s history with its iconic blue bird logo to a close when he renamed the application X and revealed its new X logo in July, as the first step in his construction of an “everything app.”
Earlier in the month, Musk had revealed that between a heavy debt load, and a 50% fall in advertising revenue, the company’s cash flow remains negative. A surge in advertising which the platform had been counting on to materialize in June never happened, leaving the company continuing to operate at a loss.