Musk’s Mouthpiece: How Nick Pickles Fights Governments on Behalf of X

Nick Pickles has spent much of the last decade getting beaten up before legislative bodies. But one day this August, appearing via video in Canberra, Australia, he was having a particularly brutal time.

The Australian Parliament was wrapping up a long-running inquiry into online child sexual exploitation, and David Shoebridge, a Green Party senator from New South Wales, wanted to know how Pickles could testify that his employer, X, as Twitter was known by then, had a “zero-tolerance” policy for …

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