Election officials are outmatched by Elon Musk’s misinformation machine
CNN —
Elon Musk’s misinformation megaphone has created a “huge problem” for election officials in key battleground states who told CNN they’re struggling to combat the wave of falsehoods coming from the tech billionaire and spreading wildly on his X platform.
Election officials in pivotal battleground states including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona have all tried – and largely failed – to fact-check Musk in real time. At least one has tried passing along personal notes asking he stop spreading baseless claims likely to mislead voters.
“I’ve had my friends hand-deliver stuff to him,” said Stephen Richer, a top election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County, a Republican who has faced violent threats for saying the 2020 election was secure.
Essentially, anything Elon Musk says gets out everywhere quickly do to the megaphone that is Twitter. The misinformation he is spreading because fact / reality to half the population and no mater how much you try to correct them and show them the facts, they are not listening. They are just blindly following whatever Elon Musk says.
