Seriously, this doesn’t come as a big shock to anyone who has been watching the downfall of the toxic mess that is Twitter which is of course owned by that not so fine person Elon Musk. Mother Jones is reporting that Elon seems to be okay with Twitter being the biggest source of election disinformation:
Elon Musk is not just the Trump-supporting owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. It turns out he is also one of the platform’s biggest peddlers of election-related disinformation, according to a new report published Thursday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
The report from CCDH, a nonprofit organization focused on protecting civil liberties and holding social media companies accountable, found that 50 false or misleading posts shared by Musk on X between January 1 and July 31 of this year racked up a staggering 1.2 billion views. The group categorized the posts under three main themes: false claims that Democrats are “importing voters” through illegal immigration (the bulk of the content that researchers examined); false claims that voting is vulnerable to fraud; and a manipulated video, also known as a deepfake, of Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to the report, while independent fact-checkers found the content in all of those 50 posts shared by Musk to be false or misleading, none of the posts in question contained a “community note,” X’s user-generated fact-checking systemthat the company promise’s can contextualize “potentially misleading posts.” Just this week, Musk claimed in a post on X that community notes offer “a clear and immediate way to refute anything false in the replies,” adding, “the same is not true for legacy media who lie relentlessly, but there is no way to counter their propaganda.”
This is simply one more data point proving that Elon Musk isn’t trying to promote free speech. He’s instead trying to promote a specific agenda at any cost. Thus if you’re still on Twitter, it’s time to get off the platform and go someplace else for your social media needs. Bluesky for example is getting a lot of signups from Brazil from what I hear. Mastodon is a good place to go as well. Because Twitter sure isn’t what it used to be.
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No Shock Here… Twitter Is The Biggest Source For Election Disinformation
Seriously, this doesn’t come as a big shock to anyone who has been watching the downfall of the toxic mess that is Twitter which is of course owned by that not so fine person Elon Musk. Mother Jones is reporting that Elon seems to be okay with Twitter being the biggest source of election disinformation:
Elon Musk is not just the Trump-supporting owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. It turns out he is also one of the platform’s biggest peddlers of election-related disinformation, according to a new report published Thursday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
The report from CCDH, a nonprofit organization focused on protecting civil liberties and holding social media companies accountable, found that 50 false or misleading posts shared by Musk on X between January 1 and July 31 of this year racked up a staggering 1.2 billion views. The group categorized the posts under three main themes: false claims that Democrats are “importing voters” through illegal immigration (the bulk of the content that researchers examined); false claims that voting is vulnerable to fraud; and a manipulated video, also known as a deepfake, of Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to the report, while independent fact-checkers found the content in all of those 50 posts shared by Musk to be false or misleading, none of the posts in question contained a “community note,” X’s user-generated fact-checking systemthat the company promise’s can contextualize “potentially misleading posts.” Just this week, Musk claimed in a post on X that community notes offer “a clear and immediate way to refute anything false in the replies,” adding, “the same is not true for legacy media who lie relentlessly, but there is no way to counter their propaganda.”
This is simply one more data point proving that Elon Musk isn’t trying to promote free speech. He’s instead trying to promote a specific agenda at any cost. Thus if you’re still on Twitter, it’s time to get off the platform and go someplace else for your social media needs. Bluesky for example is getting a lot of signups from Brazil from what I hear. Mastodon is a good place to go as well. Because Twitter sure isn’t what it used to be.
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