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Elon Musk’s claim that ventilators killed COVID-19 patients confuses correlation with causation
Claim:
Ventilators, not COVID, killed hospitalized COVID patients
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Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Elon Musk, 2023-10-31 -
Misinformation superspreaders are thriving on Musk-owned Twitter
…grown (on average, +42% interactions per tweet) since Elon Musk took effective control of the platform on 27 October 2022. Accounts from established and credible media organizations have not benefited…
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InaccurateThe Pro Power Save will not cut electric bills, nor will any other scam device of its kind
Claim:
Every American can slash their electricity bill by 90% using this revolutionary technology (Pro Power Save).
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Rolling Stone
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MisleadingThe number of COVID-19 cases reported is based on a highly specific diagnostic test for COVID-19; no confusion with flu or common cold is possible
Claim:
“It's NOT a SECOND WAVE of COVID-19 coming soon. It's the NORMAL COLD / FLU SEASON”
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Science Feedback Launches French Website to Empower the Public to Verify the Credibility of Scientific Information
…in 2023, we studied 490 X (formerly Twitter) accounts of “super-misinformers” and found that the popularity of their tweets had increased by an average of 42% since Elon Musk’s acquisition…
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Despite Community Notes, most content reviewed by fact-checkers in Europe goes unaddressed on X/Twitter
…into X’s Community Notes, has been presented by platform owner Elon Musk as a “game changer for combating wrong information” and has been contrasted with the traditional fact-checking process, in…
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Feedback.org landing page
…2025-07-23 Exclusive: Elon Musk’s X fails to deal with Russian disinformation, breaching EU rules, study says Terroille said another Russian method is to fabricate pages that look like well-known Western…
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InaccurateAlex Jones was fined 1.5 billion dollars for defaming families of Sandy Hook shooting victims; no evidence he was fined for warning about “Covid crimes”
Claim:
Alex Jones was fined 150 billion dollars for warning about crimes related to COVID-19
Source: Instagram, Brandon Tatum, 2024-08-31