New Delhi

Billionaire business magnate Elon Musk fact-checked US Vice President Kamala Harris' claim related to abortion rights.

Advertisment

×

Tesla CEO and the owner of social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, has often showered praises on his platform's Community Notes feature as a mode of democratising information as part of his long-touted "citizen journalism" tent online. Musk on Monday (July 1) took to X to mock US Vice President Kamala Harris for "lying" in a post on X about presumptive US presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Kamala Harris claimed that Donald Trump, who is up against Democrat candidate Joe Biden in the US presidential race, would ban abortion nationwide if he is voted to power.

Advertisment

Also read | Ageing Biden struggles as Trump delivers damaging attacks: Top takeaways from US presidential debate 2024

"President Joe Biden and I will do everything in our power to stop him and restore women's reproductive freedom," Harris added.

The X post was then fact-checked through Community Notes on the platform, with people on the internet adding context to Kamala's X post. The users added news links to previous statements made by Donald Trump where he refused to endorse a nationwide abortion ban, leaving the decision to the states.

Advertisment

Also watch | X's new community notes feature for India

×

Elon Musk shared a screenshot of Kamala Harris’s post, along with the inputs from the Community Notes feature.

He wrote, "When will politicians, or at least the intern who runs their account, learn that lying on this platform doesn’t work anymore?"

In the recently held US presidential debate on June 28, Donald Trump did not pander to the ultra-conservative lobby and said that he respects the recent court decision that allows the use of abortion pills. Asked if he would reverse the Supreme Court's decision on allowing the use of abortion pills, he emphatically said no.