A new report explains how dangerous violent misinformation is being aggressively expanded by Elon Musk
…posts advancing these myths received 1,349,979 engagements and were cumulatively viewed by more than 100 million times globally in just one week. When faced with criticism that his sweeping changes have led to increased misinformation on the platform, Musk often touts his expansion of X’s crowdsourced fact-checking feature, called “Community Notes.” However, NewsGuard found that just 79 of the 250 posts advancing misinformation about the war were flagged by the platform with a Community Note. That means that a note appeared approximately 32 percent of the time on some of the platform’s most prominent and harmful misinformation posts.
This shows eXtwitter has a 70% failure rate when trying to shift accountability to “community” volunteer safety.
Meanwhile, the report concludes eXtwitter management is complicit in facilitating dangerous terrorist propaganda.
The Blue Check-Verified Misinformation Superspreaders of the Israel-Hamas War: …account was banned… reinstated after Musk acquired X. It became blue-check verified in September 2023, one month before the onset of the Israel-Hamas War. Collectively, the [terrorist group misinformation] posts from @Sprinter99800 were cumulatively viewed nearly 3 million times.
Timing indicates the account was setup and run by Russia as part of effort with Hamas to start a war in Israel.
The banned account was reinstated by Elon Musk and verified allegedly for use by Russian military intelligence, like many others.
Спринтер – @Sprinter88000
Sprinter – @Sprinter99800
Sprinter – @Sprinter99880
Sprinter Monitor- @SprinterMonitor
Notice, for example, this Russian directed propaganda campaign:
And then notice who else in September 2022 was caught up parroting Russian bully speech:
…Musk had recently spoken with Russia’s ambassador in Washington, who had warned him explicitly that any attack on Crimea would lead to nuclear conflict.
In fact, the exact opposite happened next, attacks on Crimea led to Russia running away scared. Arguably these attacks shortened the war and reduced threats to civilians.
This was easily predicted by historians, especially those who study how General Grant crushed pro-slavery forces by pushing straight past such empty threat tactics to liberate millions from oppression.
And yet, not just last year, but even to this day Musk keeps parroting the baseless Russian propaganda. This just in:
“We need to figure out peace in Ukraine, and I think we need to restore normal relations with Russia,” Musk said in a talk on his social media platform X on Monday. “World War III is a civilizational risk that we may not recover from. So we need to prioritize avoiding World War III…”
Musk’s suggestions have been derided by Ukrainian officials as non-starters. “F— off is my very diplomatic reply to you @elonmusk,” Ukrainian diplomat Andriy Melnyk responded to his proposal in October 2022.
No wonder Russia started a war in Israel, and no wonder they are paying Elon Musk to spread their propaganda on his sinking platform to keep it afloat.
Anyone expect Musk to ever get on the right side of history? He’s repeating the worst mistakes, ignorant beyond belief.
Related: The OSINTdefender – @sentdefender account is allegedly U.S. active duty military and a Russian mule.