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Musk pretends he didn't transform Twitter into a playground for election denying cranks & cults [1]

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Date: 2023-05-19

When Elon Musk re-engineered Twitter to accommodate all the lunatics and conspiracy believing crackpots (like himself). Proclaiming that free speech shall not be infringed, and inviting all the habitual liars to come back to the platform, the site became a free-for-all for election deniers and conspiracy theorists to spread their nonsense without any pesky fact checking, or any constraints at all. This formula of Musk’s is sure to endanger Poll Workers, and to damage faith in America’s Democratic Institutions.

Either back up your claims @AP with actual source data or retract your story

By ALI SWENSON

It’s unclear whether Musk and his newly hired chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, are planning any changes to Twitter to crack down on the misinformation, which election experts and tech accountability advocates say heightens risks to election officials and erodes trust in democracy.

“Talk is cheap,” said David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer who now leads the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research. “It’s good that he acknowledges that it’s important for Twitter to act responsibly. … But then we have to see this action actually taken, because it’s happening right now.”

An analysis by the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs on behalf of The Associated Press surfaced the 10 most widely shared tweets promoting a “rigged election” narrative in the five days following Trump’s town hall.

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