You Hear All Sides : Musk After X Fact-Checks Trump Aide’s Anti-India Post
New Jersy : Elon Musk on Sunday defended his platform’s fact-checking system after a fresh outburst from Donald Trump’s aide Peter Navarro, who had railed against X for flagging his anti-India post on Russian oil. On this platform, the people decide the narrative. You hear all sides of an argument. Community Notes corrects everyone, no exceptions. Notes, data, and code is public source. Grok provides further fact-checking, Musk wrote.
US taxpayers shell out more. India can’t handle truth/spins, he posted. Community Notes swiftly intervened, stating India’s oil purchases were for energy security and did not breach sanctions. It highlighted that while India maintains tariffs, the US runs a trade surplus in services, and that Washington itself continues to import commodities like uranium from Russia – exposing what it called a clear double standard.
Navarro doubled down. “Wow. Elon Musk is letting propaganda into people’s posts. That crap note below is just that. Crap. India buys Russian oil solely to profiteer. It didn’t buy any before Russia invaded Ukraine. Indian govt spin machine moving high tilt. Stop killing Ukrainians. Stop taking American jobs,” he wrote, dismissing the corrections as “crap notes.”
X responded again with further notes pointing out that Navarro’s assertions were misleading, underscoring that India’s sovereign energy trade was within international law and that the US itself continued buying billions worth of Russian goods. Navarro branded India the Maharaja of tariffs, a “laundromat for the Kremlin”, and has described the Ukraine conflict as Modi’s war. He also claimed Indian elites were profiteering “at the expense of the Indian people”, remarks the Ministry of External Affairs dismissed as “inaccurate”.
The tensions also intersected with global optics when Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, signalling unity with leaders at odds with Washington.
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