A new "transparency report" from X might surprise anyone who has heard its owner, Elon Musk, talk about the importance of free speech. Before Musk bought Twitter in 2022, the social media site would release a report twice a year detailing statistics on data requests,

Elon Musk might have vowed to be a free-speech absolutist when he bought Twitter, but the number of accounts the site, now called X, has banned in the first half of this year are nearly three times the number from the same period in 2022.