"For months, billionaire and X owner Elon Musk has used his platform to share election conspiracy theories that could undermine faith in the outcome of the 2024 election.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"For months, billionaire and X owner Elon Musk has used his platform to share election conspiracy theories that could undermine faith in the outcome of the 2024 election. Last week, the political action committee (PAC) Musk backs took it a step further, launching a group on X called the Election Integrity Community."

~ Vittoria Elliott

#Trump #ElonMusk #disinformation #BigLie #Twitter #X
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Elon Musk's America PAC Has Created an Election Denial Cesspool on X

The group has nearly 50,000 members, many enthusiastically sharing debunked claims about voting fraud. “It's just an election denier jamboree,” says one expert.

WIRED (www.wired.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The group has nearly 50,000 members and says that it is meant to be a place where users can 'share potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities you see while voting in the 2024 election.'

In practice, it is a cesspool of election conspiracy theories, alleging everything from unauthorized immigrants voting to misspelled candidate names on ballots."

#Trump #ElonMusk #disinformation #BigLie #Twitter #X
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[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy Attempts to fiddle elections are a political pastime with a long history in the States. You did give English the word gerrymandering.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wood5y Yes, that's true — definitely in the States and in many other areas of the world, too, I'd conclude. And we did give that word to the English language. Perhaps what's entirely new now is the direct and seemingly powerful involvement of foreign governments in that process within the US. Anyone who imagines that American-style democracy has been perfect and realized doesn't know American history very well, I'd say.

[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy It is far from perfect, as is that in the (allegedly) United Kingdom.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wood5y Definitely far from perfect. From the outset, when it enfranchised only white, property-owning men, American democracy has always been aspirational rather than realized. Add to the equation that some of those men, including one of the most eloquent defenders of democracy, Jefferson, we’re holding other human beings and bondage as they talked about life, liberty, and happiness for all, and you see the depth of the problem.