Elon Musk's social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter, was forced to label a claim made by its owner, Elon Musk, as 'objectively false.' The controversy stemmed from Musk's assertion that subways are less efficient than cars, a claim refuted by community notes added to his post.
Elon Musk 's social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter , labeled his own argument 'objectively false' over the weekend. A community note added to an X post written by Musk on Sunday refuted the platform owner's claims that subways are less efficient than cars. \This incident highlights X's ' community notes ' feature, which Musk introduced after acquiring Twitter in October 2022.
Community notes aim to combat misinformation by empowering users to collaboratively add helpful notes to potentially misleading posts. \The controversy began when venture capitalist Shaun Maguire criticized Musk and his various companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, on X. Maguire stated, 'Subways >>>cars.' Musk responded, 'The throughput in the Vegas tunnels is already better than an average subway btw. It's a myth that subways are super efficient,' referring to the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop, an underground transportation system utilizing Teslas. However, other users quickly countered Musk's assertion, adding a community note that emphasized the significantly higher passenger capacity of subways compared to cars. They cited Sanjoy Mahan's 'The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering' as support for their claim. Some users also pointed out the vast difference in passenger volume between the Las Vegas loop and major subway lines in cities like New York. This isn't the first instance where Musk's pronouncements have contradicted factual information. When asked who the biggest spreader of misinformation on X is, Grok, X's proprietary AI bot, identified Musk himself. \Community posts on Musk's tweet highlighted the factual inaccuracies, stating, 'This is objectively false. Subways have more than 10x the capacity of a road for cars.' Experts like Andrew Miller, a transportation advisor and co-author of 'The Driverless Endgame: Policy and Regulation for Automated Driving,' commented on the situation, tweeting Musk's post with the caption, 'Live by the Community Notes, die by the Community Notes.' Sam Deutsch, a transit advocate and author of the urban policy Substack 'Better Cities,' added, 'This is a lie. the max throughput on the Tesla Tunnel is ~4,000 passengers/hr, and in reality probably is closer to 2,000 meanwhile the Lexington Avenue line of the NYC Subway can hit over 100k passengers/hr cars are simply an inefficient way to move many people.' \This incident reflects a growing trend among social media platforms, including Meta, towards community-based fact-checking. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to replace traditional fact-checkers with community notes similar to X, starting in the United States.
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