In the final days leading up to the election, the Kamala Harris campaign has allegedly been manipulating Community Notes on X posts to cast a negative light on Donald Trump and enhance Harris's image.
This development emerges as both the Republican and Democratic nominees make their final push to secure votes in crucial swing states.
As reported by The Post Millennial, the Federalist has released a report suggesting that the Harris campaign has been directing volunteers to obstruct Community Notes they find unfavorable, thereby manipulating the crowdsourced fact-checking program on X. Before Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, administrative staff occasionally censored content. However, Musk's commitment to free speech led to the creation of Community Notes, a system designed to fact-check misleading or incorrect information and curb false claims.
The report revealed a user on a Harris campaign Discord server stating that one objective is to mobilize campaign volunteers to flood X posts and "block [Community Notes] we dont like."
Becoming a contributor on Community Notes involves signing up and undergoing a rating process. Once a certain rating score is achieved, contributors can begin writing Community Notes. If a Community Note receives enough positive ratings from contributors with opposing viewpoints, it becomes publicly visible to all X users.
According to a CNN report, @KamalaHQ, a Harris campaign account, frequently features a "Rate proposed Community Note" box, visible only to program contributors. The account often misrepresents Trump's comments, prompting the proposed Community Notes. In one reported instance, the account posted an out-of-context clip, claiming: "Trump on Americans who don't support him: 'We can't play games with these people. These are people that are dangerous people ... I've never seen anything like it."
In the actual clip, Trump was referring to Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and the American who leaked Israel's war plans to attack Iran earlier in October. The Federalist report revealed that in a Discord channel, an alleged paid Democrat staffer asked volunteers: "Can folks rate notes as this as not helpful? in response to a Community Note on the post.
Despite the caption being taken out of context, the proposed Community Note has not been published on the post. This was in reference to Trump's comments during a Latino Roundtable event in Miami, Florida on Oct. 22.
The Federalist also reported the existence of a "twitter-community-notes" channel on the campaign Discord, where "paid Democrat staffers are ... writing dubious Community Notes on X to undermine GOP and Trump messaging. They then encourage volunteers to rate them positively."
The report further disclosed that campaign volunteers can undertake a "Twitter (X) Community Notes Training" module. This training instructs volunteers on how to rate Community Notes and achieve a high enough rating status to write their own notes on the platform. This alleged manipulation of the fact-checking system raises questions about the integrity of the campaign's online activities and the potential impact on the election outcome.
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