Libertarian Party
Case #
6276

X community adds a context note to Libertarian Party post: The National Libertarian Party X account posted "The US provoked the Empire of Japan into bombing Pearl Harbor. This is [sic] no way justifies the atrocities of that day. Instead, it exemplifies why economic sanctions, such as the 1941 Oil Embargo, are horrible acts of war." The post included a video of Christian Malazarte discussing this statement. The X community added a note to the post that read: "Readers added context they thought people might want to know. While it is true that the United States embargoed Japan during WWII, Japan was committing war crimes in China prior to the embargo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Si… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_…" The label is part of X’s Community Notes system. X users are able to sign up as contributors to add context to posts. X owner Elon Musk shared that any post with a Community Note added to it will be demonetized. The Community Notes account on X also posted that notices will be pushed to users who previously engaged with a post when a Community Note is added to it later.

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