Elon Musk Fact Checks U.S. Congress Member for Posting ‘Misleading Data’

Twitter CEO Elon Musk fact checked a sitting U.S. Congress member for spreading false information on the social media platform.

On Monday, Musk fact checked far-left California congress member Ted Lieu for “linking to misleading data.”

I'm beginning to think he did do it for humanity.. 👇🏽https://t.co/1Oc59GG5Ho

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) December 27, 2022

Ted Lieu Attacks New 'Twitter Files' as Misinformation, Immediately Gets Dragged by Elon Musk for Spreading Misinformation
https://t.co/rqnNwvAha9

— RedState (@RedState) December 27, 2022

Lieu tweeted in response to Monday’s TWITTER FILES drop that exposed the platform’s prior censorship of COVID information that was true but inconvenient to U.S. government policy.

TWITTER FILES: How Twitter Rigged the COVID Debate!

"Dear @davidzweig: The tweet you cite is in fact misleading. People of all ages at high risk from COVID generally benefit from vaccines. Prior natural immunity may last only a few months. COVID appears to be a leading cause of death for children," Lieu tweeted.

One tweet in reply to Lieu stated: "@tedlieu The preprint you linked to has actually been re-written as a result of my critique because it is seriously flawed and inaccurate. You linked to the old version.”

Musk then tweeted, "Ted is linking to misleading data @CommunityNotes."

Afterward, Lieu deleted his tweet.

Here's the Twitter exchange:

Well done @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/6rYa3xCtiF

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 26, 2022

https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1607503718450335746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1607503718450335746%7Ctwgr%5E9cefc45b73f6b3e1611b37884057c56ceee26025%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbonchie%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fted-lieu-attacks-new-twitter-files-as-misinformation-immediately-gets-dragged-by-elon-musk-for-spreading-misinformation-n679321

Red State shared this fact check of 'COVID as a Leading Cause of Death in Children':

In the CDC ACIP meeting on June 17 to discuss childhood Covid vaccines, a table was presented showing Covid was a leading cause of death in US children as part of a slide deck on the epidemiology of Covid-19 in children and adolescents by Dr. Katherine Fleming-Dutra. The source was a pre-print written by a group of academics from the UK, including Dr. Seth Flaxman and Dr. Deepti Gurdasani, who is well-known on Twitter for her strong views on Covid. I later learned that a very similar slide was also presented at the beginning of the FDA VRBPAC meeting earlier in the week, as were other slides citing this “top 5 cause of death” claim.

The slide was shared on Twitter by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina (“Your Local Epidemiologist”), and retweeted by many influential people including Jerome Adams, Julia Raifman (tweet now deleted), Gregg Gonsalves, and Leana Wen. Only problem? It’s completely and utterly false. The pre-print it’s based on includes significant errors that invalidate the results. And the slide makes additional errors on top of the pre-print. It’s really disturbing that data this poor made its way into the meetings to discuss childhood Covid, and that it took me less that a few minutes to find a major flaw (and then I found many more as I looked deeper).