Musk misleading election claims viewed 1.2bn times on X
Musk's false/misleading US election claims got ~1.2 billion views, none carrying a Community Note.
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The Center for Countering Digital Hate reviewed posts by Elon Musk about the 2024 US elections published between January and July, identifying 50 posts that independent fact-checkers had found false or misleading, and grouped them into categories before tallying their view counts and checking for Community Notes.
The 50 posts collectively drew close to 1.2 billion views with no Community Notes attached to any of them; claims that Democrats encourage illegal immigration to gain voters accounted for about 747 million views across 42 posts, claims questioning voting-system integrity drew roughly 288 million views across 7 posts, and a single post sharing an AI-generated deepfake audio clip of Kamala Harris drew about 133 million views.
The report concludes that Musk used his position and reach on X to spread unverified election claims without correction, and calls for stronger platform accountability measures, including revisiting legal protections such as Section 230.
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