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  • https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/election-disinformation-elon-musk-x-trump-harris/

    Elon Musk is not just the Trump-supporting owner of the social media
    platform X, formerly known as Twitter. It turns out he is also one of
    the platform’s biggest peddlers of election-related disinformation,
    according to a new report published Thursday by the Center for
    Countering Digital Hate.

    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 Jan. 1
    and July 31 of this year racked up a staggering 1.2 billion views. The
    group categorized the posts under three main themes: false claims that
    Democrats are “importing voters” through illegal immigration (the bulk
    of the content that researchers examined); false claims that voting is
    vulnerable to fraud; and a manipulated video, also known as a
    deepfake, of Vice President Kamala Harris.

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