Elon Musk is the most-followed user on X, and election misinformation he spreads on the platform oftentimes far-surpasses accurate information spread by government officials.

As Elon Musk continues to aggressively share conspiracy theories and misinformation about elections on X, election officials are fighting back.

But even as they are speaking out to try to counteract Musk, the owner of X since 2022, they’re being drowned out on a platform that seemingly favors falsities.

Corrections to Musk’s lies from election officials like Michigan County Clerk Barb Bynum, who regularly uses her 25,000-follower account to share accurate information about how elections work, have oftentimes received far less engagement on the platform.

“My microphone is significantly smaller than the owner of Twitter’s, but I still have to use my platform to correct mis- and disinformation, especially when it is about election administration and the integrity of our elections,” Bynum said in an interview with NBC News.

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No, then we would have no way to send astronauts to space, and no way to reliably and cheaply send satellites up.

Force him to divest from spacex.

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Or just nationalize that shit

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He really got himself some MAGA caps in all colors, but red

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He’s a special snowflake

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LIES.

call them what they are, ffs.

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The media rarely can find it in them to use the l-word: lies. Just like they have a very hard time using the f-word: fascism.

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Why is he not in jail for election interference? Oh wait, there’s a billion reasons.

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Turns out Elon Musk may be the most prolific liar of the century.

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…So far, we still have the climate wars to come at some point in the next 75 years; plenty of lying opportunities for particularly motivated bastards there.

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