The billionaire owner of X social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk has said that the company will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of users who have been treated unfairly by their employers for posting or liking something on the platform.
Musk said in a post on his X account on Sunday: “If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill.”
Musk added that there will be no limits to funding the legal bills.
In response to a post about nothing changing behavior in the U.S. faster than a threat of legal action, Musk said, “And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too.”
Late last month, Musk said that monthly users of X reached a “new high” and shared a graph that showed the latest count as over 540 million.
This comes as the company is going through organisational changes and looking to boost falling advertising revenue.
It was also the latest in a series of comments from X executives claiming strong traction in usage, after Meta Platforms (META.O) launched a competing platform called Threads on July 5.
After 17 years with an iconic blue bird logo that came to symbolize the broadcasting of ideas to the world, billionaire Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo in July, marking a focus on building an “everything app.”
Musk earlier in July had said that the platform’s cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load. An upturn in advertising revenue that had been expected in June failed to materialize.