A warm welcome back home
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For Republican Congresscritters. Not.
Here’s a summary. Click on the embedded videos.
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So much for free speech on X.
Some users on X note that Bluestein’s posts covering the townhal appeared to be “censored" on the social media platform.
“X appears to be censoring Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter @bluestein’s posts covering Rep. Rich McCormick’s (R-GA) town hall. The now ‘unavailable’ posts, which per Bluestein were not deleted, showed McCormick being booed after he defended DOGE,” U.S. House staffer Aaron Fritschner wrote in a post.
Max Flugrath, a communications director for Fair Fight and Fair Fight Action, also said that X was trying to suppress Bluestein’s posts.
“Looks like posts about angry constituents at this Georgia GOP congressional town hall were/are being suppressed. Elon doesn’t want you to know Americans aren’t taking Project 2025 lying down,” Flugrath said on X.
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Even better.
Elon Musk apparently no longer believes that crowdsourcing fact-checking through Community Notes can never be manipulated and is, thus, the best way to correct bad posts on his social media platform X.
Community Notes are supposed to be added to posts to limit misinformation spread after a broad consensus is reached among X users with diverse viewpoints on what corrections are needed. But Musk now claims a "fix" is needed to prevent supposedly outside influencers from allegedly gaming the system.
"Unfortunately, @CommunityNotes is increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media," Musk wrote on X. "Working to fix this."
Musk's announcement came after Community Notes were added to X posts discussing a poll generating favorable ratings for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. That poll was conducted by a private Ukrainian company in partnership with a state university whose supervisory board was appointed by the Ukrainian government, creating what Musk seems to view as a conflict of interest.
Although other independent polling recently documented a similar increase in Zelenskyy's approval rating, NBC News reported, the specific poll cited in X notes contradicted Donald Trump's claim that Zelenskyy is unpopular, and Musk seemed to expect X notes should instead be providing context to defend Trump's viewpoint. Musk even suggested that by pointing to the supposedly government-linked poll in Community Notes, X users were spreading misinformation.
