Thursday, October 10, 2024

Musk Boosts Four Favorite Misinformation Superspreaders

Elon Musk is one of the most prolific spreaders of misinformation on his platform: He has directly advanced 17 false narratives that appear in NewsGuard's database of 2,757 provably false claims known as Misinformation Fingerprints.

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"Musk's massive X following makes his amplification of false information especially significant. With 199 million followers, Musk has 22 times the number of followers as the official White House account, nine times more than The Wall Street Journal, three times more than The New York Times, and twice as many as pop star Taylor Swift.

A closer look: We reviewed more than 4,000 of Musk's posts from Jan. 1, 2024, to June 30, 2024, to see which accounts he interacted with most frequently. Interactions include when Musk posts a link, quotes a post, responds to a post, or reposts.

Here are the top five accounts that Musk engaged with over this six-month period, according to NewsGuard's review:

1. @EndWokeness (220 Musk interactions), a conservative commentator, has spread nine false claims, including that Haitian migrants are stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and that the body of a five-month-old Palestinian baby killed in the Israel-Hamas war was actually a silicone doll.

Musk engaged with this account more than once per day, on average, during the six-month period."

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There's also a video highlighting this article, but also giving a look at the REAL Dark MAGA... .

Elon Musk and Dark MAGA

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-09 07:38 PM

Good for him.

I dumped my -------- account.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-10 07:18 AM

... Musk Boosts Four Favorite Misinformation Superspreaders ...

Why aren't Republicans screaming "election interference?"

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-10 12:46 PM

Because for Republicans election interference is great if Trump does it!

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-10 02:48 PM

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