Election officials are increasingly confronting billionaire X owner Elon Musk about election disinformation on his own platform, but their reach is typically smaller compared to Musk's 200 million followers.

“It’s just not a fair fight,” said Larry Norden, an election expert at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit think tank.

Henrico County Clerk Mark Coakley, for example, received fewer than 100,000 views for a thread debunking a 2023 claim by Musk that falsely claimed that “Virginia election integrity leaders” cast fraudulent votes in the county's 2020 election would have determined.

The original post by Musk – a vocal supporter and donor of former President Donald Trump – was viewed 27.7 million times.

In Philadelphia, Musk posted a tweet pointing out that 5,200 voters had registered with the same address. “This is crazy,” Musk commented.

Seth Bluestein, a Philadelphia County commissioner, responded hours later, tweeting, “The post you shared spreads disinformation.” But Bluestein's response reached fewer than 10,000, compared to the nearly 10 million views for Musk's initial tweet.

-Laura Romero and Lucien Bruggeman from ABC News