Musk Demands AP Retract Story On False Election Posts

The Associated Press reports:

In an interview this week, Twitter owner Elon Musk said users making false claims of stolen elections “will be corrected” on the platform. Prompted by a CNBC reporter for extra assurance that would happen, Musk responded, “Oh yeah, 100%.” Yet many such claims have thrived on Twitter in the week since former President Donald Trump spent much of a CNN town hall digging in on his lie that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him.

An analysis by the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs urfaced the 10 most widely shared tweets promoting a “rigged election” narrative in the five days following Trump’s town hall. While Twitter has a system in place for users to add context to misleading tweets, the 10 posts had no such notes attached. The most widely shared tweets included false claims from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Kari Lake, a Republican who lost her bid for Arizona governor last year.

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Musk’s attack on the AP seen below has earned nearly 200,000 likes and spurred thousands of paid blue check cultists to follow their leader.

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

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 19, 2023

It did. Exhaustively. Read the article. Atone.

— Keith Olbermann↙️ (@KeithOlbermann) May 20, 2023