The era when political leaders could take to liberal Twitter, lie blatantly about important issues, falsely slander their opponents, and get away with it appears to be ending. This shift is being seen since Elon Musk took over the platform.
A recent example involves US Vice President Kamala Harris, who – or whose team – took to social media to make false claims about Presidential election favorite Donald Trump. Unlike the ‘bad old days’ of Jack Dorsey-led Twitter, this time it didn’t go as planned.
According to the New York Post:
“Elon Musk called out Vice President Kamala Harris Monday for ‘lying’ about former President Donald Trump’s abortion stance while proclaiming that the social media platform’s ‘community notes’ feature keeps politicians accountable when trying to spread falsehoods about their opponents.
Harris said Sunday on her X account that Trump ‘would ban abortion nationwide’ and that she and President Biden will do ‘everything’ in their ‘power to stop him and restore women’s reproductive freedom’.”
Previously, Kamala might have gotten away with such statements, and critics of her claims might have been banned from the platform for dubious reasons. However, under Musk’s leadership, her post was flagged by a community note reminding readers that “President Trump has repeatedly said he will not sign a national abortion ban.”
Being fact-checked by ordinary citizens online would be challenging enough for the VP, but more was to come.
Elon Musk, with his 188M followers, called her out in a quote-tweet:
“When will politicians, or at least the intern who runs their account, learn that lying on this platform doesn’t work anymore?” Musk posted.
It was once uncommon to call a President or VP a liar so directly, but the extreme dishonesty of the liberal-Globalist elites has led to this change.
Trump has indeed stated that he will not enact a national abortion ban, preferring to leave the regulation of the procedure up to the states. During the first debate with Biden on Thursday, Trump said, “I put three great Supreme Court justices on the court and they happened to vote in favor of killing Roe v. Wade, and moving it back to the states. Now the states are working it out.”