Elon Musk Launches Investigation After the Federalist Exposed Harris Campaign’s Social Media Manipulation

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X owner Elon Musk announced that his team is investigating Vice President Kamala Harris’ manipulation of social media to artificially inflate her online support.

The billionaire entrepreneur announced the probe after The Federalist published two parts of a three-part investigative series about the Democrats leveraging a cadre of dedicated followers to “spread election disinformation, and skirt election laws” with online forums, including X. . .

“We are investigating this,” Musk wrote on X a few weeks after warning voters at a Pennsylvania rally this fall that if Harris wins, “this will be the last election.”

According to the anonymous internet watchdog Reddit Lies, writing in The Federalist, the Harris campaign is engaged in a practice known as “astroturfing,” wherein massive swaths of coordinated messages generate an illusion of support far broader than actually exists.

“It’s no different than a shady company paying a team to write a bunch of fake Amazon reviews about their product to make it appear to be a better and more popular product than it is,” the watchdog reported this week. “On Amazon, that might result in a product getting more sales. In a U.S. election, it could mean that the falsely advertised candidate receives more votes. This behavior is not only incredibly dishonest, but in many cases, it directly violates the Terms of Service they’ve agreed to by operating on certain social media platforms.” (Read more from “Elon Musk Launches Investigation After the Federalist Exposed Harris Campaign’s Social Media Manipulation” HERE)

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Report: White House Officials Pressured Stenographers to Edit Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Smear

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White House press officials reportedly pressured stenographers to cover up President Joe Biden’s “garbage” smear by editing the transcript to alter its meaning.

The coverup was “a breach of protocol and spoilation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices,” according to a stenographer supervisor’s email obtained by the Associated Press (AP).

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump] supporters,” Biden said Tuesday.

The White House stenographers added an apostrophe to “supporters” and an em-dash to alter the meaning of Biden’s statement.

White House press officials pressured the stenographers, charged with preparing accurate transcripts for National Archives’s preservation, but the stenographers drew objections to the changes, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained by the Association Press. (Read more from “Report: White House Officials Pressured Stenographers to Edit Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Smear” HERE)

Joe Biden Seen Biting ‘A Baby’ During Trick-Or-Treating at White House

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President Joe Biden was seen appearing to “bite a baby” during the Biden family’s last Halloween celebration at the White House on Wednesday night.

In a photo posted to X by Corinne Perkins, the North America Editor for Reuters Pictures, Biden was seen appearing to be leaning forward, biting a baby’s leg.

“U.S. President Joe Biden bites a baby during a trick-or-treaters celebration for Halloween at the White House in Washington,” Perkins wrote in her post.

People took to social media to comment that it made them feel “uncomfortable,” while others expressed they enjoyed the “carefree” version of Biden.

“This makes me uncomfortable,” Abigail Jackson, the Communications Director for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote in a post.

(Read more from “Joe Biden Seen Biting ‘A Baby’ During Trick-Or-Treating at White House” HERE)

Chinese Citizen Charged After Allegedly Voting Illegally in Key State — But Vote Will Still Count

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A Chinese citizen, who attends the University of Michigan, was charged for allegedly voting illegally in the key battleground state of Michigan – and that student’s vote will still be counted.

A spokesperson for the Michigan Secretary of State confirmed to Fox News Digital that the Chinese citizen voted at a polling place at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on Sunday, Oct. 27.

The state’s top authorities condemned the 19-year-old’s actions, saying that since the man is not a U.S. citizen, he cannot vote in federal elections.

“Only U.S. citizens can register and vote in our elections. It is illegal to lie on any registration forms or voting applications about one’s citizenship status. Doing so is a felony,” Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit wrote in a joint statement.

Despite the fact that the Chinese citizen’s ballot was cast illegally, it is expected to be counted in the upcoming election. (Read more from “Chinese Citizen Charged After Allegedly Voting Illegally in Key State — But Vote Will Still Count” HERE)

Elon Musk Investigating Claims Harris Campaign Is Manipulating Community Notes To Skew Fact-Checking on X

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk said his company was looking into claims that the Harris-Walz presidential campaign was trying to manipulate community notes on X in order to push more favorable narratives.

Musk reposted the accusations on X, the platform he owns, from an account with screenshots from a report in the Federalist documenting the alleged efforts from organizers of the Harris campaign on other platforms, including Discord and Reach.

The report showed how paid Harris staffers on the Harris Discord were writing their own community notes and calling on volunteers to vote them positively in order to spread their propaganda.

Community notes were added to Twitter after Musk purchased the platform in order to allow crowdsourcing to determine the truthfulness or falsity of viral claims. Sometimes the community votes up contradictory information and data to avoid misinformation from gaining traction without pushback. (Read more from “Elon Musk Investigating Claims Harris Campaign Is Manipulating Community Notes To Skew Fact-Checking on X” HERE)

After Voter Finds Fraudulent Ballot Cast in His Name, New York Tells Him It Will Count Anyway

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“I’m sorry sir, but you already voted.”

“No I didn’t,” 55-year-old Mike Miner told a Wappingers Falls election worker on Sunday — yet that’s not what election records showed.

Miner told The Federalist that he decided to vote early, just one day after early voting began on Saturday.

“I went up to the table and was told I already voted,” Miner said. “I ask, ‘Where did I vote?’ Because, of course, this is very surprising to me. And they told me I voted in the town of Fishkill [which is located next to Wappingers], 22 minutes after early voting began on Saturday.”

Miner was given an affidavit ballot, which is a provisional ballot that is secured inside an affidavit envelope. A bipartisan team at the Dutchess County Board of Elections investigated the situation and determined that since the signature provided Saturday did not match Miner’s actual signature, Miner’s affidavit ballot will count — but so will the fraudulent vote cast Saturday in Miner’s name. That’s because once a ballot is cast, the vote itself becomes anonymous, making it impossible to identify the fraudulent vote and remove it from the bunch. (Read more from “After Voter Finds Fraudulent Ballot Cast in His Name, New York Tells Him It Will Count Anyway” HERE)

Transgender Activist’s Super PAC Sent Misleading Texts to Thousands of Voters

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A left-wing “voter mobilization” group admitted sending misleading texts to voters that told them they had already voted when they had not.

Charlotte Clymer, a transgender activist and spokesperson for AllVote, told CNN that the texts were sent out to “several thousand registered voters” in Pennsylvania.

The texts told voters they had already voted in the November election, but the group said that they intended the texts to say that records showed they had voted in the previous election in 2022. The message left out the “in 2022″ part and confused voters, the group said.

Clymer said the “unfortunate copy-editing error” was made by “staff working long hours.”

However, the group has also been accused of voting-text shenanigans in Michigan as well. The Wisconsin Election Commission said the group sent out texts with links that “at first appeared to be the voter’s municipal website” but were incorrect. The commission also criticized AllVote for appearing to portray itself as an official source of voting information. (Read more from “Transgender Activist’s Super PAC Sent Misleading Texts to Thousands of Voters” HERE)

‘Significant Threat’: Federal Government Launches Plan to Track ‘Faith’ Data

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In a day when the federal government sends grandmothers to jail for advocating for the lives of the unborn, insists it can coerce Christian companies to pay for abortion and promote an LGBT ideology that is out of mainstream, and more, a federal bureaucracy’s blast against religious freedom shouldn’t, perhaps, be a surprise.

It is the U.S. Department of Energy that has begun tracking employees’ beliefs through a plan to monitor employment accommodations.

And Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., is objecting.

He wrote Ann Dunkin, a DOE official, to “express my strong opposition to the Department of Energy’s recent notice regarding the establishment of a new system of records … .”

He warned the agenda “represents a grave violation of religious liberty as protected under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”

It is the Washington Stand that obtained a copy of the letter Lankford delivered to the DOE. (Read more from “‘Significant Threat’: Federal Government Launches Plan to Track ‘Faith’ Data” HERE)

Half of Gen Z Voters Said They’ve Lied About Who They’re Voting For

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Nearly half of Gen Z voters said they have lied to friends and family about who they have or will vote for in the presidential election.

The latest Axios-Harris Poll survey found that 48% of voters between the ages of 18 and 27 have lied about their votes. Comparatively, nearly 1 in 4 voters said they have lied overall. Millennial voters were the second most likely age group to lie, with 38%. Only 6% of baby boomers and older said they have lied about their vote.

Gen Z voters began to vote in presidential elections starting in 2016 when the highly polarizing former President Donald Trump first ran.

The poll found that 44% of Gen Z citizens and 47% of millennials said they weren’t close to some family members because of opposing political beliefs.

“There’s a new privacy emerging here, where it’s far more convenient to either lie or not talk about it,” said John Gerzema, CEO of The Harris Poll. (Read more from “Half of Gen Z Voters Said They’ve Lied About Who They’re Voting For” HERE)

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Bill Clinton: ‘Economy Was Better’ Under Donald Trump, But You Should Still Vote for Kamala Harris

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Former President Bill Clinton said the “economy was better” under former President Donald Trump during a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, adding that people should still vote for Harris.

“I don’t think it’s right to say that people have to vote for Donald Trump because the economy was better then,” Clinton said in what rallygoers seemingly perceived as a pro-Trump slip, as the 42nd president’s remark elicited groans from the audience.

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But Clinton stressed that people should still vote for Harris, even though the economy was better under Trump.

Clinton also said, “I think I’m entitled to my opinion about who would be better” because he used to be president, and he thinks he “did pretty well.” (Read more from “Bill Clinton: ‘Economy Was Better’ Under Donald Trump, But You Should Still Vote for Kamala Harris” HERE)