Kamala Harris campaign manipulates X Community Notes feature to suppress comments they 'don't like': report

The Kamala Harris campaign has reportedly been manipulating Community Notes on X posts in order to make Donald Trump look worse and make Harris look better on different X posts. This comes less than a week out from the election as the GOP and Democratic nominees are making their last efforts to get out the vote in vital swing states.

According to a report from the Federalist, the Harris campaign has been instructing volunteers to block Community Notes that they "don't like” and manipulating the crowdsourced fact-checking program on X. Prior to Elon Musk purchasing then-Twitter, administrative staff on the site would censor content at times, however, as Musk has made the platform to reflect the principles of free speech, Community Notes was created as a system to fact-check out-of-context or bad information to curtail false claims.

The report said that one user on a Harris campaign Discord server said that one goal is to get volunteers for the campaign to swarm posts on X and "block [Community Notes] we don’t like."