Title: | ‘Stamp of approval’: Twitter’s Musk amplifies misinformation |
URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.33DG9P3 |
Publisher: | AFP |
Date published: | April 19, 2023 |
Description: | Elon Musk promised to make Twitter the “most accurate source of information about the world,” but he has repeatedly used his own account to amplify false claims from some of the most notorious disinformers on the internet, according to an AFP analysis of his online activity. |
‘Stamp of approval’: Twitter’s Musk amplifies misinformation
Elon Musk promised to make Twitter the "most accurate source of information about the world," but he has repeatedly used his own account to amplify false claims from some of the most notorious disinformers on the internet, according to an AFP analysis of his online activity.