When Elon Musk bought Twitter, now called X about a year ago, the platform had some challenges.

Twitter is a company that has never been a huge money maker over the years.

It's lost a lot of money, it's struggled to kind of find its way.

This was before Elon took over and now it's just seen its revenue fall even more.

What's our colleague Tim Higgins?

For the last year, Musk has been trying to turn around the company's business.

He's laid off thousands of employees, loosened content moderation, and tried to open up the

platform to different points of view, promoting it as a bastion of free speech.

But in the last week, that strategy has been put to the test after the war began between

Israel and Hamas.

When you look at X in that kind of early days, you could see lots of content that looked

like maybe it was coming from a war zone and it was being purported to being from the

war zone, old video clips being misleadingly repurposed, even a fake White House press release

widely circulated.

The sorts of things that people say can be potentially harmful, the things that make

experts and observers really worried.

How would you characterize how important this moment is for X?

This is Elon Musk's first big test as the owner of X.

This was the concern when he started making major changes to how the company operated,

how it addressed misinformation, how it addressed disinformation, and the warnings were that

X wouldn't be prepared when something big happened and now something big has happened.

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