Twitter Deletes Its Own Fact Check Correcting Elon's Bogus Vaccine Tweet
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to the COVID-19 vaccine. “We cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but, by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing,” Musk tweeted. “Myocarditis is a known side-effect. The only question is whether it is rare or common.”Shortly thereafter, the platform’s Community Notes system sprung into action and added a label clarifying Musk’s“Studies show that the risk of myocarditis is significantly higher after an actual Covid infection than with the vaccine.
. There’s no indication that Musk intervened to take the note down. The company’s press email auto-responds with a poop-emoji, a joke that continues to bring joy to five-year-olds across the globe.Community Notes, originally called Birdwatch, is a user-run system that adds context or corrections to misinformation on Twitter through popular vote. Users who participate in the program can flag tweets and add their own language correcting a post.
Musk celebrated Community Notes as the arbiter of truth on Twitter as recently as four days ago. Over the weekend, Musk announced that going forward, but the company still officially calls itself Twitter on the platform’s app and website. The company took ownership of the @x account earlier this week without informing or compensating its original owner..
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