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Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone (www.nytimes.com)

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Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone::Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk’s claims about voting. The Biden campaign called his posts “profoundly irresponsible.”

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't get it. Why try to control what others enjoy reading? I just scroll past the stuff I don't want to read.

I could be standing in the middle of the road, trying to prevent people doing what I don't like, but it won't work. :)

[–] simple@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not controlling what people are posting or reading, I'm just voicing my opinion.

These types of points are repetitive and have pointless discussions. "Elon Musk is bad stop using twitter" Yes, we know, we have this thread virtually every day now and get the same exact comments with the same exact responses. I'm tired of seeing them constantly on my feed is all.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A couple of excerpts:

wrote in a blog post that the platform had expanded its alternate approach to fact-checking misinformation — through crowdsourced “community notes” written by users.

There were no such notes on Mr. Musk’s voting messages. But they were on a post by another X user that made the wild claim that Mr. Biden won the New Hampshire primary only through ballot stuffing.

And

On Jan. 10, he responded to a post about the recent influx of undocumented immigrants by writing, falsely, that “illegals are not prevented from voting in federal elections. This came as a surprise to me.” A couple of days earlier, Mr. Musk implied that Mr. Biden and the Democrats were being lax on immigration because “they are importing voters,” an echo of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory that Mr. Trump was sharing around the same time.

These are new, from this month, and it is news. If this type of thing doesn't get repeated more than lies, then what becomes of the truth?

This news isn't about Elon Musk, it's about the state of our democracy and the platforms used to control it. If you don't like hearing about that, you may want to unsubscribe from the news community.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the technology community. This isn't technology news.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 10 months ago

Ahhh a cross-post. This we can agree on. This should not have been cross posted here from news.