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.

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  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Democrats because this affects them and if they don’t do anything about it they’re showing how toothless and useless they are in the face of fascists.

    This is a big deal, and just letting it slide is a fucking joke. They have good reasons (the drug use) to revoke his security clearance already and they have not.

    I vote for Democrats you dumb fuck. Why does every fucking IDIOT on Lemmy think valid critique of Democratic failures means we’re not voting for them. Take that shit and shove it.