{"id":10748,"date":"2023-11-28T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=10748"},"modified":"2023-11-28T15:54:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:54:03","slug":"musks-twitter-activities-contribute-to-spreading-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=10748","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s Twitter activities contribute to spreading misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elon Musk vowed to make Twitter the \u201cmost correct supply of information about the world,\u201d but he has repeatedly used his personal account to amplify false claims from a few of the internet\u2019s most infamous disinformers, as demonstrated by an AFP analysis of his online activity.<br\/>Musk\u2019s posts display a penchant for drawing consideration to misinformation on topics ranging from the warfare in Ukraine to the attack on US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband. Just final week, the billionaire gave credence to a tweet suggesting that medical doctors misdiagnosed flu circumstances as Covid-19 deaths.<br\/>\u201cOne of the greatest mysteries of Covid-19: Where did the flu go in 2020 and 2021?\u201d an account called \u201cKanekoaTheGreat\u201d requested, prompting Musk to reply: \u201cGood question.\u201d<br\/>Since snapping up Twitter for a cool $44 billion practically six months ago, the outspoken entrepreneur has replied to this particular account, identified for promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory, no much less than 40 instances. In comparison, he has only responded to a couple other accounts extra during the identical period.<br\/>Using information from PolitiTweet, a website that tracked public figures\u2019 posts till Twitter reduce off its entry, AFP reviewed 1000&#8217;s of replies Musk published between late October and March.<br\/>Among the billionaire\u2019s doubtful shares have been a fabricated CNN segment, a phony quote he dubbed \u201cwise phrases,\u201d and a false declare that police escorted a rioter through the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. He also drew consideration to a publish blaming mass shootings on LGBTQ individuals and endorsed a fake casualty depend from Ukraine.<br\/>Musk hasn\u2019t shied away from downplaying Covid-19 both, actively promoting spurious claims about vaccines causing blood clots, miscarriages, and coronary heart issues.<br\/>\u201cWe are running out of \u2018conspiracies\u2019 that turned out to be true!\u201d the Twitter proprietor quipped in March, replying to a tweet that listed Covid-19 and vaccine safety among the \u201cbiggest media lies.\u201d<br\/>Just days later, he stated that the \u201cbest way to struggle misinformation is to respond with correct info.\u201d<br\/>Experts argue that Musk\u2019s activity is troubling, due not only to his vast online influence, but in addition as a end result of it reveals his thought course of as somebody who determines the policies of a major social media platform.<br\/>\u201cMusk has virtually one hundred thirty five million Twitter followers and forced his engineers to extend the attain of his tweets, so we should always fear when he spreads misinformation,\u201d noted Brendan Nyhan, a Dartmouth College professor who studies misperceptions in politics. \u201cI\u2019m most worried, although, about what these tweets reveal concerning the judgment of the one who determines the policies of a major social media platform.\u201d<br\/>\u2013 Musk\u2019s feed \u2013<br\/> <a href=\"http:\/\/discounttreasures.xyz\">Nest egg<\/a>  have linked recent changes in Twitter\u2019s policy, together with Musk\u2019s reinstatement of suspended accounts and its revamp of verification practices, to surges in misinformation.<br\/>NewsGuard, an organization that assesses websites\u2019 credibility, discovered that accounts paying for Twitter\u2019s subscription service are flooding the location with false claims.<br\/>Musk himself is shining a highlight on a few of these accounts.<br\/>\u201cGot the Elon Musk stamp of approval,\u201d boasted \u201cKanekoaTheGreat\u201d on Telegram after one such reply.<br\/>A January research from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based assume tank, documented a \u201cstaggering\u201d rise in Musk\u2019s interactions with right-wing accounts since acquiring Twitter, including profiles other research flagged as spreaders of US election misinformation.<br\/>Musk has repeatedly retweeted content from sources such because the pro-Donald Trump web page \u201cCatturd,\u201d the anti-LGBTQ account \u201cLibs of TikTok,\u201d and the conspiratorial web site ZeroHedge.<br\/>Ian Miles Cheong, a far-right blogger, has received at least 60 replies from Musk, placing him amongst only a few different users who can claim related interaction levels, based on AFP\u2019s analysis. In one case, Musk drew attention to a tweet blaming Joe Biden for an immigration program that started underneath Trump.<br\/>\u201cMusk is elevating some of the worst voices on Twitter,\u201d remarked Nyhan. \u201cThese interactions are more probably to improve the attain and prominence of the accounts.\u201d<br\/>In certain situations, the Twitter boss has played a role in mainstreaming false narratives.<br\/>After an intruder broke into Pelosi\u2019s California home and struck her husband with a hammer in October, Musk tweeted a hyperlink to an article alleging he was drunk and combating with a male prostitute. The hashtag #Pelosigaylover quickly became a trending matter on Twitter.<br\/>The combination of courtroom filings and safety footage from the incident debunked these claims, which originated from a website with a history of publishing misinformation. By then, nevertheless, the injury was already accomplished.<br\/>\u201cIt\u2019s actually sad for the country that folks of that prime visibility would separate themselves from the information and the reality in such a blatant way,\u201d Nancy Pelosi lamented. \u201cIt is traumatizing to these affected by it. They don\u2019t care about that, clearly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk vowed to make Twitter the \u201cmost correct supply of information about the world,\u201d but he has repeatedly used his personal account to amplify false claims from a few of the internet\u2019s most infamous disinformers, as demonstrated by an AFP analysis of his online activity.Musk\u2019s posts display a penchant for drawing consideration to misinformation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10749,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions\/10749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}