Elon Musk, the owner of X, announced that his team is looking into Kamala Harris ‘ use of social media to inflated her online support.
The Federalist published two components of a three-part analytical series about the Democrats using a cadre of dedicated supporters to” spread election disinformation and skirt election rules” with online communities, including X. The billionaire investor made the announcement of the investigation after The Federalist published two components of a three-part investigation line. ( Read the first and second parts here. )
After warning citizens at a Pennsylvania march this fall that if Harris wins,” this will be the last vote,” Musk wrote on X saying,” We are investigating this.
The Harris strategy is engaged in a process known as “astroturfing,” in which large swaths of coordinated communications create an illusion of support that is much wider than really exists, according to the private online watchdog Reddit Lies, who wrote in The Federalist.
The guardian reported this week that “it’s not different than a dark company paying a group to write a number of fraudulent Amazon reviews” about their products to make them appear better and more popular than they actually are. ” On Amazon, that may result in a solution getting more profits. In a U. S. vote, it could mean that the fake posted candidate receives more seats. This behaviour is not only very dishonest, but it frequently directly violates the Terms of Service they’ve agreed to by using some social media platforms.
On Reddit, the sixth-most famous site in the world,” 126 of the best 1, 000 content in the past month on r/Politics were posted by official Harris-Walz plan participants”.
According to Reddit Lies,” Owning one of every eight of all top posts in r/politics is not an easy feat, and it does n’t just happen,” explaining how the Harris campaign was carried out as part of a coordinated effort of volunteers purposefully working to circumvent platform safety guards against spam. ” It’s safe to say that the Harris-Walz astroturfing activity has necessarily compromised the legitimacy of political debate on Reddit.”
In part two of the research for The Federalist, Reddit Lies show Harris followers are likewise carefully lowering community information that make her promotion look bad. Despite the reform initiatives put in place at X under Musk, “virtually none of the false and misleading tweets from Kamala Harris ‘ battle have Community Notes attached to them.”
According to Reddit Lies,” One possible reason for this mismatch is that the Harris strategy is directing volunteers to vote down Community Notes even when those notes properly state that the campaign is being deceptive.” ” In the’ twitter-community-notes ‘ stream found on the Harris-Walz Discord, paid Democrat employees are also writing controversial Community Notes on X to destroy GOP and Trump communication. They therefore encourage participants to charge them favorably”.
