Posted on 04/06/2024 8:44:58 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this year — two of them crucial to the presidential contest.
“Extremely concerning,” X owner Elon Musk replied twice to the post this past week.
“Are migrants registering to vote using SSN?” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an ally of former President Donald Trump, asked on Instagram, using the acronym for Social Security number.
Trump himself posted to his own social platform within hours to ask, “Who are all those voters registering without a Photo ID in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Arizona??? What is going on???”
State election officials soon found themselves forced to respond. They said the user, who pledges to fight, expose and mock “wokeness,” was wrong and had distorted Social Security Administration data. Actual voter registrations during the time period cited were much lower than the numbers being shared online.
Stephen Richer, the recorder in Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes Phoenix, refuted the claim in multiple X posts while Jane Nelson, the secretary of state in Texas, issued a statement calling it “totally inaccurate.”
Yet by the time they tried to correct the record, the false claim had spread widely. In three days, the pseudonymous user’s claim amassed more than 63 million views on X, according to the platform’s metrics. A thorough explanation from Richer attracted a fraction of that, reaching 2.4 million users.
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“… Actual voter registrations during the time period cited were much lower than the numbers being shared online…”
But they didn’t deny that illegals are registering, just that the numbers are wrong.
Has AP bothered to check the comments section of Yahoo News?
Which, by the way, shut down ALL comments during the run-up to the 2000 election.
Almost 10 million illegal alien invaders under the Biden Regime are roaming, raping, and murdering Americans. FACT.
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Well, we right-wingers don’t have the massive national news “media” butt boyz and gurlz to do those things for us.
Motor/Voter is the driving problem.
The deep state wants to outlaw anonymity. Anonymity is the only way to criticize the regime and stay out of prison.
The AP talking about false information is hilarious.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4228717/posts
The not anonymous underlying story link no longer exists.
Bingo. The late Ray Briem, who has a star on the walk of fame, caled it “auto fraudo,” which is exactly what it is. RIP RAY.
A(ll)P(ropaganda) debunks the ‘rightwing’ again. what would we do without them.
It was replaced with-
Voter registration information from the social security administration cannot be true, but why?
Art Zark
“I’ve been writing about this for the past couple of days, but have taken down my previous posts on this subject. The reason is that I now believe the raw data on the HAVV website, or a significant portions of it, are false. “
https://zarkfiles.substack.com/p/voter-registration-information-from
” Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information...”
Can’t have anons spreading “disinformation”.
They might start spreading really dangerous lies like Trump-Russia, corona came from Bats, Hunter Biden’s computer was Russian Disinformation, and the 2020 election was the most secure election in history.
AP stands for Always Propaganda.
Aren’t 99% of Internet comments anonymous??
Ali and Melissa are besides themselves about how the peasants just won’t fall in line and trust their benevolent betters.
Why would I believe the AP? Liars!
"Since his takeover of Twitter in 2022, Musk has nurtured the rise of these accounts, frequently commenting on their posts and sharing their content. He also has protected their anonymity. In March, X updated its privacy policy to ban people from exposing the identity of an anonymous user."
It's not about internet comments, per say. It's about Musk and X specifically. Leftists no longer control Twitter and it's an election year. The narrative going forward is Musk is dangerous and needs to be put under control.
Buy pet rocks.
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