Hours after federal filings showed entrepreneur Elon Musk offered about $43 billion to buy Twitter, Musk told a Vancouve
Elon Musk attends the opening of a Tesla factory in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Musk bought X, formerly Twitter, in October 2022.
"Under Elon Musk's ownership, misinformers are emboldened and lent an air of legitimacy," said Jack Brewster, enterprise editor with NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation."Rather than achieving the goal of leveling the playing field, Musk’s alterations, which include a major overhaul of the platform’s verification system and a reduction in content moderation, have instead fostered an environment in which bad actors can flourish.
In the 90 days after April 21, when X removed labels identifying content from state-affiliated accounts, Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media English-language accounts surged 70% compared with the previous 90-day period, NewsGuardaccess to data they can analyze to better understand how information spreads. Researchers have used such data to learn more about social media’s role in, but researchers say the data it provides is far too limited.
The result is that people are exposed to mis- and disinformation shared by accounts they don’t follow and previously might not have seen, said Nick Reiners, senior analyst at Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy.So, verifiable news became harder to find as less-trusted sources were empowered to thrive."The easiest way to get distribution is to buy it," Siegel said.
On Nov. 23, Musk asked users whether the platform should"offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam." After 72% of respondents voted"yes," Musk Before Musk, repeated violations of Twitter’s policies prohibiting the spread of COVID-19 and election misinformation could result in permanent bans, CNNit would no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy. The platform’s written policy on election misinformation says the platform canposts that confuse users about their ability to vote, including incorrect information about polling times or locations, PolitiFact reported.
Facing backlash, Musk again polled platform users. A majority of voters supported reinstating the journalists, and Musk reinstated most of the accounts by Dec. 18.that X deliberately slowed users’ access to links directing people to news organizations and other social media platforms, including The New York Times, Reuters and Facebook.its Community Notes program — the platform’s crowdsourced approach to addressing misinformation — as one way to combat Israel-Hamas war misinformation.
Koltai, who researched Community Notes for Twitter, said the initiative was not meant to be the platform’s only approach to addressing misinformation. Email interview with Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Oct. 12, 2023X’s Unchecked Propaganda: Engagement Soared by 70% for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian Disinformation Sources Following a Change by Elon Musk
Video shows North Korean President Kim Jong Un blaming President Joe Biden for the Israel-Hamas war and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and saying, “I support Donald Trump for President in 2024.”James Biden’s text message to Hunter Biden that says, “I can work with you father alone,” shows that Joe Biden was “in business” with Hunter Biden.
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