{"id":15724,"date":"2024-12-15T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15724"},"modified":"2024-12-15T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T16:20:21","slug":"were-all-living-inside-elon-musks-misinformation-machine-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15724","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re all living inside Elon Musk\u2019s misinformation machine now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/27\/technology\/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">buying the platform<\/a>&nbsp;in 2022, Musk has helped turn X into an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/wrong-claims-by-musk-us-election-got-2-billion-views-x-2024-report-says-2024-11-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">epicenter of election misinformation<\/a>. With 203 million followers, Musk has the biggest reach on X and is the platform\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edisonresearch.com\/the-infinite-dial-2024\/%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most prominent pusher of anti-immigrant conspiracy theories<\/a>&nbsp;and right-wing propaganda. At Musk\u2019s request last year, X&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformer.news\/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">changed the site\u2019s algorithm<\/a>&nbsp;to put his posts in more people\u2019s feeds \u2014 posts that increasingly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/03\/technology\/elon-musk-x-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">urged people not to trust the outcome of the election<\/a>. The nonprofit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/counterhate.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Countering Digital Hate<\/a>&nbsp;estimates that Musk\u2019s misleading posts about the election have been viewed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/04\/media\/elon-musk-election-x-misinformation-trump-harris\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 2 billion times<\/a>&nbsp;this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/technology\/383336\/trump-election-elon-musk-misinformation\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/technology\/383336\/trump-election-elon-musk-misinformation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since buying the platform in 2022, Musk has helped turn X into an epicenter of election misinformation. With 203 million followers, Musk has the biggest reach on X and is the platform\u2019s most prominent pusher of anti-immigrant conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda. At Musk\u2019s request last year, X changed the site\u2019s algorithm to put his posts in more people\u2019s feeds \u2014 posts that increasingly urged people not to trust the outcome of the election. The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate estimates that Musk\u2019s misleading posts about the election have been viewed more than 2 billion times this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/technology\/383336\/trump-election-elon-musk-misinformation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1356,1598,135,132,1029,134,327,1987],"class_list":["post-15724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-algorithms","tag-elon-musk","tag-falsehoods","tag-lies","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-twitter","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15725,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions\/15725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}