The Federalist has investigated how VP Kamala Harris’s campaign pushes its volunteers to manipulate social media, making it appear that she is more popular and correct than she is.
The campaign uses a Discord server to tell its volunteers what to do and execute the plan.
The volunteers’ latest target is Elon Musk’s X platform to “block[community notes] we don’t like.”
Select users who signed up for the program could propose notes to be added to tweets showing that the information was wrong, misleading, or required important context. Other users can then read the proposed notes and vote on whether they are accurate or needed, and if the proposed notes get enough favorable votes, they get appended to the post permanently.However, throughout this campaign Harris-Walz official accounts have been remarkable conduits for disinformation and have regularly provided dishonest presentations of the Trump-Vance campaign. The Harris campaign’s X accounts have been so bad that even CNN fact checker Daniel Dale, who has been very harsh on Trump for several years, wrote an entire column highlighting the errors and dishonesty.Despite this, virtually none of the false and misleading tweets from Kamala Harris’ campaign have Community Notes appended to them. One likely explanation for this discrepancy is that the Harris campaign is directing volunteers on its Discord server to vote down Community Notes even when those notes accurately say the campaign is being deceptive.
The Federalist used a @KamalaHQ post claiming Trump called those who don’t support him “dangerous people.”
Democratic National Committee employee Timothy Durigan latched onto the community notes on the tweet, telling readers the account took the comments out of context.
The staffers also tell volunteers to propose false community notes for accounts connected to Republicans and Trump.
Is anyone shocked? Every post by @KamalaHQ infuriates me because it’s always wrong.
Musk said X started an investigation.
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