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