Elon Musk Launches "Election Integrity Community" on X w/Baseless Election Claims

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Elon Musk launched an ‘election integrity community’ on X, full of baseless claims
While Elon Musk faces his own election integrity questions offline, the X owner has deputized his followers to spot and report any “potential instances of voter fraud and irregularities”. The community he spawned is rife with unfounded claims passed off as evidence of voter fraud.

Musk opted not to show up to a required court appearance Thursday in Philadelphia to respond to a lawsuit challenging his political action committee’s daily $1m voter giveaway. Meanwhile, online, he has started a dedicated community space on X, formerly Twitter, where he’s asked users to share any issues they see while voting. Users posting on the self-contained feed, the “election integrity community”, quickly began pointing out what they deemed as evidence of fraud and election interference.

Tweets showing everything from ballots that arrived ripped, an ABC news system test, a postal worker doing his job and dropping off mail-in ballots were all presented as evidence that the upcoming presidential election had been compromised. Some users posted videos of individuals they deemed suspicious, despite providing little or no proof of suspicious activity and asked others in the community to help identify them.

Among the tweets are attempts at doxxing and identifying people who users falsely accuse of ballot box stuffing or preventing Trump supporters from voting. In one case, a post with 14,000 shares and 31,000 likes includes a video of a postal worker bringing ballots into a polling location in Northampton county, Pennsylvania.

Elon Musk’s ‘election integrity community’ 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

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mike30]

There will be a lot of controversy with that. I guess it's free publicity

 

[fuzzems]

We need voter ID. Everyone vote ON election day unless there is some compelling reason you can't get to the polls. It's a civic duty to go vote. And it should not be hard to tally the votes and declare a winner on election night like we USED to be able to do with paper ballots.

 

[Webster]

And it should not be hard to tally the votes and declare a winner on election night like we USED to be able to do with paper ballots.

It wouldn't be hard, Fuzzems, if people didn't do stuff like this....

Tweets showing everything from ballots that arrived ripped, an ABC news system test, a postal worker doing his job and dropping off mail-in ballots were all presented as evidence that the upcoming presidential election had been compromised. Some users posted videos of individuals they deemed suspicious, despite providing little or no proof of suspicious activity and asked others in the community to help identify them.

*points to quote* Either you trust election officials to do their job or you don't.
And throwing out stuff w/out either explanation or context doesn't help either.