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Election Disinformation From Elon Musk Is Drawing Billions of Views on X
A new report reveals the vast reach of anti-immigrant and anti-Harris disinformation shared by the Trump-backing mogul.
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. Imran Ahmed, CEO of the CCDH, said in a statement accompanying the report that Musk “is abusing his privileged position as owner of a small, but politically influential, social media platform to sow disinformation that generates discord and distrust.” Musk’s post has received more than 135 million views, and it remains online—despite the fact that, as the CCDH report notes, X’s policy prohibits the sharing of “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.”
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