Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk’s claims about voting. The Biden campaign called his posts “profoundly irresponsible.”
In the spring of 2020, when President Donald J. Trump wrote messages on Twitter warning that increased reliance on mail-in ballots would lead to a “rigged election,” the platform ran a corrective, debunking his claims.
“Get the facts about mail-in voting,” a content label read. “Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud,” the hyperlinked article declared.
This month, Elon Musk, who has since bought Twitter and rebranded it X, echoed several of Mr. Trump’s claims about the American voting system, putting forth distorted and false notions that American elections were wide open for fraud and illegal voting by noncitizens.
This time, there were no fact checks. And the X algorithm — under Mr. Musk’s direct control — helped the posts reach large audiences, in some cases drawing many millions of views.
Since taking control of the site, Mr. Musk has dismantled the platform’s system for flagging false election content, arguing it amounted to election interference.
How much longer does this shit have to go on before mainstream people finally realize that Xitter (pronounced “shitter”) is just the next iteration of Parler/Gab/Truth[sic] Social and abandon the platform for the propaganda garbage heap it is?
This. I get that “all my friends and content creators are there,” but if enough people left, so would their friends and creators.
It’s like nobody learned a thing from Facebook, and say, “Well, guess I have to sit in shit, because I’ve tried doing nothing, and I’m all outta ideas.”
Edit: typo
Addiction is a helluva disease
Yeah. Corporate News Medai: Attention! If you link or quote Xitter your article and possibly your outlet will be cast into the void. Heed this admonition.