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The Election Integrity Community, which launched in late October, has hundreds of new posts every day, many of which contain misleading or false claims, CBS News found. Misinformation experts worry that mobilizing people to collect unverified claims of voter fraud is fueling the spread of false narratives that undermine confidence in election security.

Musk's voice has become a prominent voice in the 2024 election explicit public and financial support of former President Donald Trump, and he frequently uses his X account to amplify election misinformation. A CBS News investigation found that half of Musk's election security posts this year contained false or misleading claims.

Many of the claims come from elsewhere on X and are reposted on the community site. Some of the contributions Falsely Claims Voting Machines “Flip Votes” from Trump to Harris. Other posts reshared a made up video which officials say was likely created by a Russian troll farm. Another recirculated a debunked claim that Michigan voters cast multiple ballots.

Max Read, a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said the X community can serve as a “one-stop shop” for users looking to amplify claims of election fraud.

“The X-Community is kind of a consolidation point for a lot of different false, unverified claims about the electoral process,” Read said.

Some users in the community have attempted to doxx people they falsely accuse of election fraud. In one case, users attempted to identify a postal worker who was dropping off ballots at an election office who they falsely claimed was illegally “collecting” votes. A county executive told NBC News that the postal worker was harassed because of the video.

Musk's X community agrees “Stop the theft” Efforts on Facebook during the 2020 election in which Trump supporters spread false claims and organized protests that culminated in the election Riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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“Efforts to intimidate voters or make them feel like violence could occur are actually a way to lay the groundwork that a Trump defeat is illegitimate,” Benavidez said.

Since taking over X, formerly Twitter, in October 2022, Musk has unblocked accounts previously suspended for violating the platform's policies and fired the department responsible for content moderation.

“He has a lot of power over the platform and over a platform that has a lot of users,” said Steven Rathje, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University who has studied the changes on X since Musk took over. “It changes the information diet we experience every day.”