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☆ Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation - researcher
  + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Byron Kaye | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's X, formerly called Twitter, disabled a feature that let users report misinformation about elections, a research organisation said on Wednesday, throwing fresh concern about false claims spreading just before major U.S. and Australian votes. Users could still report posts to X globally for a host of other complaints such as promoting violence or hate speech, the researcher added. In a letter to X's managing director for Australia, Angus Keene, Reset.Tech Australia said the change may leave content that violates X's own policy banning electoral misinformation online without an appropriate review process. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), which will oversee the Oct. 14 referendum, has said the spread of electoral misinformation is the worst it has seen. The commission said it was still able to report posts containing political misinformation directly to X, even after the feature was disabled.
Persons: Carlos Barria, Elon Musk's, Alice Dawkins, Angus Keene, Musk, Byron Kaye, Sonali Paul Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Twitter, European Union, Reset.Tech, Australia, Reuters, Australian Electoral Commission, AEC, Thomson Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S, Reset.Tech Australia, Australia
☆ Australia's Indigenous Voice referendum faces misinformation linked to COVID influencers
  + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Byron Kaye | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +10 min
Dozens of campaigners who built substantial audiences during the COVID era by opposing Australia's pandemic response have turned their focus to undermining the Oct. 14 referendum, analysis of social media posts by independent fact-checkers shows. The direct link between COVID agitators and misinformation about the Voice has not been previously reported in detail. Polls show support for the Voice has slumped from about two-thirds in April to less than 40% this month. Not one X post containing electoral misinformation was marked or taken down in the monitoring period, before or after being reported, Reset.Tech said. "Many of the accounts pushing electoral misinformation narratives turned to a style of anti-lockdown politics during the pandemic," said Reset.Tech Australia executive director Alice Dawkins.
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