Nicole Acevedo is a reporter for NBC News Digital. She reports, writes and produces stories for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The rumor started as a post on X. The post published in early April misrepresented federal data from the Social Security Administration to falsely suggest that hundreds of thousands of migrants may have registered to vote in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Texas. One hour later, the tweet got the rocket fuel it needed to take off: X owner Elon Musk reposted it with the comment, “extremely concerning.
Media Matters, a left-leaning nonprofit media watchdog, provided NBC News with 10 examples of social media posts published on Meta’s platforms, most of them from Facebook, that amplified the false claim from X. Nearly two weeks after the claims in the posts had been publicly debunked, the social media company had only labeled one of the 10 posts as containing false information and included a hyperlink to a fact-checking article. NBC News sent links for the 10 posts to a Meta representative.
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