It’s no secret that since Elon Musk took over, X has become an even bigger cesspool of misinformation, unverified claims, and outright fraud. Two new reports from the Center to Combat Digital Hate (CCDH) and The Washington Post It reveals that the protective gear that Musk removed and replaced did not control X’s problems with disinformation.
About X’s research on the Community Notes feature, a user-driven reporting system in which anonymous users post for typos and rate corrections. The researchers sampled 283 false election posts from social media platforms that accepted the proposed Community Notes between January 1 and August 25. Of those fraudulent sample posts, 209 did not show the Community Notes fix to all X users, the report said. Even more alarming, the 209 false posts in question have received 2.2 billion views.
CCDH followed up its report with its own investigation into X’s Community Records feature and found that X’s problems with disinformation extend far beyond the election.
During his only presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris in Springfield, Ohio, former President Donald Trump made the bold claim that Haitians eat people’s pets. Moderator and ABC news anchor David Muir called Trump’s statement false because local police or government agencies were not notified of such incidents. Fact checking site Political fact He rated Trump’s claim as the lowest false rating This did not stop this lie from spreading among conservatively inclined users on X.
The Post It found that an account called End Wokeness, with 3.1 million X users, started spreading the former President’s claim about Haitian immigrants. The post went unchecked for four days until a Community Notes user flagged the post as incorrect, citing five different articles to support the correction. Unfortunately, the note did not get enough votes to call the post false and was not corrected. As of Wednesday, still on @EndWokeness’ account and with a Community Note of 4.9 million views.
Musk’s account didn’t help matters. The Post it reports that it is “one of the X users most targeted by suggested Community Notes” with one in 10 posts receiving a suggested edit note.
The publication cited It includes a manipulated video of Harris talking about President Joe Biden’s “old age” and how he’s running because he’s “the best mercenary of diversity.” You know where this is going. There are no Community Notes or corrections, and the post is still on X, even though thousands of responses from other X users point out that it’s fake. The post had 136.6 million views.
CCDH is one of Musk and X . The British non-profit organization constantly monitors Musk’s account for fake posts that fail to earn a Community Note, especially when it comes to the presidential election. Its CEO Imran Ahmed said in August that X “really fails to contain the algorithmically enhanced incitement that we know can lead to violence around the world. X sued CCDH over claims the nonprofit created a “scare campaign” to reduce advertising revenue. US District Court Judge in March.