It's been painfully obvious that Elon "Apartheid Clyde" Musk only bought Twitter to destroy it in time to impact the 2024 elections.
Musk consistently shares racist AI-generated videos and right-wing memes. He has re-tweeted anti-Semitic and racist tropes by the terrible people he's allowed back on Twitter, such as Christian Nationalist Nick "Groyper" Fuentes and subhuman tinfoil hat Alex Jones.
He pretends he's not doing anything regarding the election, yet promised to give Donald Trump $45 million per month.
Then he said he never said that. Then he started a PAC to harvest voter information to give to the Trump campaign.
Seems pretty election interference-y to me.
And it also seems pretty sus to the five Secretaries of State who sent a letter to Elon on Monday asking him to fix the AI chatbot Grok before the election misinformation it spreads goes too far.
The election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Washington told Musk that Grok "produced false information about state ballot deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race."
Grok is available only to subscribers to the paid versions of Twitter, which is always Twitter to the cool kids. But the misinformation generated by Grok was shared across multiple social media platforms, and reached millions of people, according to the letter.
The bogus ballot deadline information from the chatbot also referenced Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, and Texas, although their secretaries of state did not sign the letter. Grok continued to repeat the false information for 10 days before it was corrected, but by then it was too late.
“In this presidential election year, it is critically important that voters get accurate information on how to exercise their right to vote,” Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said in a statement. “Voters should reach out to their state or local election officials to find out how, when, and where they can vote.”