Kathe Welch (@kathewelch.com)

Elon Musk Plays Disinfo Telephone: How Oregon’s Mundane Voter Roll Cleanup Is Turned Into False Claim Of ‘Fake Voters’ I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical example of how the game of “disinformation telephone” gets played. Let's walk through it, because understanding how this works is important. The game works like this: Someone takes a factual but largely unremarkable story, gives it a slight spin, and passes it along. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/13/elon-musk-plays-disinfo-telephone-how-oregons-mundane-voter-roll-cleanup-is-turned-into-false-claim-of-fake-voters/