Elon Musk has vowed to crack down on X users who have tried to correct false claims by Donald Trump that Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval ratings have collapsed.

The billionaire said he planned to “fix” the social network’s system of community notes, which allows users to label fake news and add fact-checks or further context. Mr Musk claimed the system was being “increasingly gamed by governments [and] legacy media” and said he was “working to fix this”.

On X, users have pushed back on the US president’s claims that the Ukraine president’s approval rating has collapsed to 4pc. One widely shared poll from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology suggested his popularity was closer to 57pc.

In response, Mr Musk said that it was “utterly obvious that a Zelensky-controlled poll about his OWN approval is not credible”.

The billionaire claimed that Mr Zelensky was “despised by the people of Ukraine, which is why he has refused to hold an election”. Mr Musk added: “If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election. He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of ALL Ukrainian media, so he cancelled the election.”

His remarks come after the Ukrainian president said Mr Trump lived in a “disinformation bubble”. Mr Trump has repeated a series of inflammatory claims about the war in Ukraine that have echoed Kremlin talking points, including labelling Mr Zelensky a “dictator”.

Polling experts have dismissed Mr Trump’s...

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