NEW DELHI: Billionaire proprietor of X and Trump supporter Elon Musk has been accused of spreading false or deceptive claims on the US election and influencing the extremely polarised White home race. In line with a report by a watchdog organisation, Musk’s flagged social media posts have garnered almost 1.2 billion views this yr.
Middle for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), recognized 50 posts by Musk since January that contained election claims debunked by impartial fact-checkers.None of those posts displayed a ‘Neighborhood Observe,’ a crowd-sourced moderation instrument promoted by X so as to add context to posts.
The posts analyzed by CCDH carried broadly debunked claims, similar to Democrats encouraging unlawful migration to ‘import voters’ or the election being susceptible to fraud, each of which garnered lots of of hundreds of thousands of views.
“Elon Musk is abusing his privileged place as proprietor of a politically influential social media platform to sow disinformation that generates discord and mistrust,” warned CCDH chief govt Imran Ahmed.
“The dearth of Neighborhood Notes on these posts reveals that his enterprise is failing woefully to include the type of algorithmically-boosted incitement that everyone knows can result in real-world violence,” he added.
This comes days after Musk was accused of sharing a deep pretend video of Vice President Kamala Harris wherein a voiceover mimicking Harris calls President Joe Biden senile earlier than declaring that she doesn’t “know the very first thing about working the nation.”
The video carried no indication that it was parody till Musk later clarified it was meant as satire.
In the meantime, a bipartisan group of 5 US secretaries of state additionally despatched an open letter to Musk, urging him to repair X’s AI chatbot often called Grok after it produced election misinformation that was amplified by different platforms.
X has stoked controversy after stoking tensions throughout latest far-right riots throughout England and has gutted belief and security groups and scaled again content material moderation efforts as soon as used to tame misinformation, making it what researchers name a haven for disinformation.
Middle for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), recognized 50 posts by Musk since January that contained election claims debunked by impartial fact-checkers.None of those posts displayed a ‘Neighborhood Observe,’ a crowd-sourced moderation instrument promoted by X so as to add context to posts.
The posts analyzed by CCDH carried broadly debunked claims, similar to Democrats encouraging unlawful migration to ‘import voters’ or the election being susceptible to fraud, each of which garnered lots of of hundreds of thousands of views.
“Elon Musk is abusing his privileged place as proprietor of a politically influential social media platform to sow disinformation that generates discord and mistrust,” warned CCDH chief govt Imran Ahmed.
“The dearth of Neighborhood Notes on these posts reveals that his enterprise is failing woefully to include the type of algorithmically-boosted incitement that everyone knows can result in real-world violence,” he added.
This comes days after Musk was accused of sharing a deep pretend video of Vice President Kamala Harris wherein a voiceover mimicking Harris calls President Joe Biden senile earlier than declaring that she doesn’t “know the very first thing about working the nation.”
The video carried no indication that it was parody till Musk later clarified it was meant as satire.
In the meantime, a bipartisan group of 5 US secretaries of state additionally despatched an open letter to Musk, urging him to repair X’s AI chatbot often called Grok after it produced election misinformation that was amplified by different platforms.
X has stoked controversy after stoking tensions throughout latest far-right riots throughout England and has gutted belief and security groups and scaled again content material moderation efforts as soon as used to tame misinformation, making it what researchers name a haven for disinformation.
