Anti-hate group says Elon Musk continues to peddle election falsehoods on X unchecked

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Anti-hate group says Elon Musk continues to peddle election falsehoods on X unchecked

A new report from the British non-profit

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(CCDH) found X owner Elon Musk spread misinformation about the US election and the Democrats’ presidential campaign in 50 posts this year alone. His assertions continue to go unchecked on the platform, not even through its own “Community Notes” feature. CCDH’s CEO Imran Ahmed says the absence of these grassroots fact-checks show “that his business is failing woefully to contain the kind of algorithmically-boosted incitement that we all know can lead to real-world *********, as we experienced on Jan. 6, 2021.”

The report cites 50 posts made on Musk’s X account from January 1 to July 31 that made claims about the election which have been proven false by independent fact-checkers. The posts overwhelmingly involve allegations of the Democratic party importing voters to gain an electoral advantage. He pushed *********** theories that

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on March 28 and

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on February 26. The fact checking website

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rated the latter claim as “False” citing the 3.6 million immigrants removed from the US under President Biden’s administration between February 2021 to September 2023.

Around half a dozen of Musk’s posts also falsely insist the US election system is meaningfully vulnerable to ******. He called for the elimination of electronic voting machines because of their

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in a X post he made on June 15. He also asserted that

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accompanied by a video of Fox News’ Jesse Waters and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson making claims about the ease of which non-citizens can vote in ********* elections. Neither post has been corrected. (

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has called instances of voter ****** “extremely rare” and notes that states have “multiple layers of security to protect against malfeasance.”)

One of Musk’s posts even featured an AI-generated deepfake of Democratic nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris. The faked fooage features the voice of someone claiming to be Harris talking about how she’s the “ultimate diversity hire” and how she tries to “sound ******” and “pretends to celebrate Kwanzaa.” Once again, the post has no community note or correction, even though sharing “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media” is in direct contravention of X’s

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The CCDH report says the combined 50 tweets have been viewed approximately 1.2 billion times on X.

Based on these and other posts written by Musk, Ahmed called for the amendment of

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to include social media companies “to be held liable in the same way as any newspaper, broadcaster or business across America.”

The CCDH is currently involved in a legal battle with Musk and X Corp. The parent company of X filed a federal lawsuit in San Francisco against the non-profit group claiming it illegally scraped its servers and purposely picked hateful posts as part of “a scare campaign to drive away advertisers,” according to court documents.

We attempted to reach X for a chance to comment but are unlikely to receive a fulsome response — the site effectively

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its public relations team under Musk’s stewardship.

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