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Elon Musk’s false and misleading election claims have been viewed 2 billion times on X
The world’s richest man buys out one of the most popular social media platforms and uses it as a propaganda and disinformation machine in support of a
An analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that tracks misinformation, found that Elon Musk posted at least 87 claims this year about the U.S. election on X that fact-checkers have rated as false or misleading. Researchers identified a total of 746 posts Musk made between July 13 and October 25 that mention terms associated with the U.S. election, like Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, voting, and ballots. Imran Ahmed, CEO of CCDH, said in a statement that X has “devolved into a hellscape of hate and disinformation” after Musk removed many of the site’s guardrails that protected against false information.
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