Musk's X censors coverage of Trump's Arlington incident, citing potential "spam"

Coverage of a damning altercation between Donald Trump’s campaign and staff at the Arlington National Cemetery was briefly censored by Elon Musk’s X on Thursday morning, amplifying concerns surrounding the platform’s role in burying anti-Trump content, as its owner embraces the candidate. An article, which ran on NPR with the headline “Army says Arlington National Cemetery worker was 'pushed aside' by Trump aides,” contains a statement from the Army condemning the Trump campaign for its actions, later flagged with a warning from X reading, “this article may be unsafe,” per a screenshot circulating on the platform. The article, which was shared on the account of reporter Stephen Fowler, as NPR elected to stop sharing content on X last year when the publication was designated a “state-affiliated media” group by Musk, was further addressed in a response from X, stating that the label was a “false positive.” But it’s not the first time in recent weeks that X has limited the reach of anti-Trump and pro-Harris content. The platform faced scrutiny last month for suspending pro-Harris account “White Dudes for Harris,” a group that raised over $4 million for the candidate during a July Zoom meeting Musk, who previously used the X platform to advertise pro-Trump tags to all U.S. users, has pledged tens of millions of dollars in monthly contributions to Trump’s re-election effort, enlisting a personal Republican political consultant and founding a PAC that was caught misdirecting hopeful swing state voters.