Elon Musk wants people on X to police election posts. It's not working well
X falsely claimed she was «ineligible» to run for office because her parents were not born in the United States.
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The false assertion spread quickly. Under one post with the untrue claim about Harris, which was shared thousands of times and received nearly 137,000 views, another X user quickly added a warning that the post was wrong and that Harris was eligible to run as a U.S. citizen.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiCertificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitMIT xPROMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIndian School of BusinessProfessional Certificate in Product ManagementVisit «Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California, USA,» the note said. «This makes her a natural born citizen. Eligible to run for President of the United States.»
But on dozens of other posts containing the same misinformation, no such corrections appeared.
Elon Musk has done away with most content moderation rules on X since buying the social network in 2022. He has instead relied on a program called Community Notes, which lets a group of users write fact-checking labels and vote on whether they are helpful. Those approved are added to misleading posts by an algorithm. X has determined that the program is sufficient to police most misinformation about the presidential election in November, two people
