Elon Musk’s X ‘declined to send’ appropriate witness to Senate hearing

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Elon Musk’s X ‘declined to send’ appropriate witness to Senate hearing

As the riots raged in the U.K., Elon Musk began making incendiary comments about the situation, including the statement: “Civil war is inevitable.” Musk is the owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as X.

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While top executives from Alphabet, Meta and

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are headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a hearing on election threats, Elon Musk’s X won’t be participating.

A representative for Sen. Mark R. Warner, the Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNBC in an emailed statement that X “declined to send an appropriate witness.” No further details were provided, and X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The hearing is titled “Foreign Threats to Elections in 2024 — Roles and Responsibilities of U.S. Tech Providers.” Alphabet will be represented by Kent Walker, the president and chief legal officer, while Meta’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, will represent the social networking company.

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President Brad Smith will represent the software giant.

The hearing, which is being led Warner (D-Va.) and committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), is centered around lawmakers’ concerns over foreign entities that are attempting to influence the outcome of the presidential elections in November using the biggest tech platforms.

Alphabet and

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recently published research into the efforts by Iranian and Russian hacking groups to influence or ******* officials linked to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The hackers have utilized various tactics including spear phishing.

Earlier this month, the Biden administration said it’s

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Russian government-sponsored attempts to affect U.S. public opinion.

“We will be relentlessly aggressive in countering and disrupting attempts by Russia, Iran, as well as China or any other foreign malign actor” attempting to “interfere in elections and undermine our members,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement at the time.

X’s absence from the Wednesday hearing follows a streak of divisive posts by Musk, the world’s richest person, on the app, formerly known as

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, which he acquired in 2022. Musk has close to 200 million listed followers.

After a second apparent ************** attempt against *********** former President Donald Trump over the weekend, Musk shared then deleted a 

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questioning why there weren’t more ************** threats made against President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee. Biden and Harris have both received 

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 while in office.

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this week that Musk has previously shared content on X that had been created by the Social Design Agency, which led a *********** campaign at the Kremlin’s direction, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

On Wednesday, Musk

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a false story on X that claimed explosives were found in a car near Trump’s planned rally in Long Island, New York. According to a statement from

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, a civilian near the site of the rally had falsely reported explosives being found.

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