{"id":16425,"date":"2024-10-31T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T21:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/elon-musks-election-integrity-community-on-x-is-full-of-baseless-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T22:38:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T21:38:45","slug":"elon-musks-election-integrity-community-on-x-is-full-of-baseless-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/elon-musks-election-integrity-community-on-x-is-full-of-baseless-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018election integrity community\u2019 on X is full of baseless claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feed is rife with posts of individuals deemed suspicious and calls for doxxing with little evidence provided of fault<\/p>\n<p>While Elon Musk faces his own election integrity questions offline, the X owner has deputized his followers to spot and report any \u201cpotential instances of voter fraud and irregularities\u201d. The community he spawned is rife with unfounded claims passed off as evidence of voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Musk opted not to show up to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/31\/elon-musk-court-hearing-voter-lottery\">required court appearance<\/a> Thursday in Philadelphia to respond to a lawsuit challenging his political action committee\u2019s daily $1m voter giveaway. Meanwhile, online, he has started a dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/communities\/1848518910653415584\">community space<\/a> on X, formerly Twitter, where he\u2019s asked users to share any issues they see while voting. Users posting on the self-contained feed, the \u201celection integrity community\u201d, quickly began pointing out what they deemed as evidence of fraud and election interference.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/oct\/31\/elon-musk-election-integrity-community-misinformation-disinformation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0effe181ba26d6ce70eeafbabea59db65d07f965\/110_575_5709_3426\/master\/5709.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f9f3af8ed4a5f125fd135ebd87407729\" title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018election integrity community\u2019 on X is full of baseless claims\" \/>Feed is rife with posts of individuals deemed suspicious and calls for doxxing with little evidence provided of fault<br \/>\nWhile Elon Musk faces his own election integrity questions offline, the X owner has deputized his followers to spot and report any \u201cpotential instances of voter fraud and irregularities\u201d. The community he spawned is rife with unfounded claims passed off as evidence of voter fraud.<br \/>\nMusk opted not to show up to a required court appearance Thursday in Philadelphia to respond to a lawsuit challenging his political action committee\u2019s daily $1m voter giveaway. Meanwhile, online, he has started a dedicated community space on X, formerly Twitter, where he\u2019s asked users to share any issues they see while voting. Users posting on the self-contained feed, the \u201celection integrity community\u201d, quickly began pointing out what they deemed as evidence of fraud and election interference. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feed is rife with posts of individuals deemed suspicious and calls for doxxing with little evidence provided of fault While Elon Musk faces his own election integrity questions offline, the X owner has deputized his followers to spot and report any \u201cpotential instances of voter fraud and irregularities\u201d. The community he spawned is rife with &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/elon-musks-election-integrity-community-on-x-is-full-of-baseless-claims\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018election integrity community\u2019 on X is full of baseless claims<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}