Election officials, concerned about misinformation, confront Musk online
Election officials are increasingly confronting billionaire X owner Elon Musk on his own platform over election disinformation, but their reach typically pales in comparison to Musk's 200 million followers.

"It's just not a fair battle," said Larry Norden, a voting expert at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit think tank.
Henrico County registrar Mark Coakley, for example, received fewer than 100,000 views for a thread debunking a 2023 claim shared by Musk falsely alleging that "election integrity leaders in Virginia" found fraudulent votes in the county from the 2020 election.
The original post shared by Musk -- a vocal supporter of and donor to former President Donald Trump -- received 27.7 million views.
In Philadelphia, Musk reposted a tweet suggesting that 5,200 voters had registered with the same address. "This is crazy," Musk commented.
Seth Bluestein, a Philadelphia County Commissioner, replied hours later, tweeting, "The post you shared is spreading disinformation." But Bluestein's response garnered fewer than 10,000 compared with the nearly 10 million views for Musk's initial tweet.
-ABC News' Laura Romero and Lucien Bruggeman






