White House advisor Peter Navarro lashed out at India’s Russian oil imports after his post on X was flagged with a Community Note. While Navarro accused India of profiteering and slammed Elon Musk for “letting propaganda in,” Musk defended the platform, saying Community Notes “corrects everyone without exception” and that people, not legacy media, shape narratives on X.
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White House advisor Peter Navarro was left fuming on Sunday after one of his posts attacking India’s Russian oil purchases was marked with a community note on X.
Navarro yet again slammed India for trading with Russia “purely to profit/Revenues feed the Russian war machine.” However, the X users fact-checked him, noting that India’s oil imports were largely “for energy security, not just profit,” and that they did not violate sanctions.
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Angered at the criticism, Navarro disregarded the flagging as “crap” and rebuked Elon Musk for “letting propaganda into people’s posts.” He reiterated his allegations, accusing India of only beginning to purchase Russian oil after the Ukraine invasion and was “solely profiteering.”
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Wow. @elonmusk is letting propaganda into people’s posts. That crap note below is just that. Crap. India buys Russia oil solely to profiteer. It didn’t buy any before Russia invaded Ukraine. Indian govt spin machine moving high tilt. Stop killing Ukranians. Stop taking… https://t.co/Uj1NMUrVOM
— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) September 6, 2025
“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,” Navarro wrote.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk reacted to Navarro’s criticism of his post being flagged. The billionaire said that Community Notes “corrects everyone without exception.” However, Musk neither mentioned Navarro by name nor directly responded to him in his post.
Musk said, “On this platform, the people decide the narrative. You hear all sides of an argument. Community Notes corrects everyone, no exceptions. Notes data & code is public source. Grok provides further fact-checking.”
Musk also reshared a post asserting that X has become a real-time, fact-checkable news platform. He argued that legacy media has lost credibility, remarking, “As recent events have shown all too clearly, you can’t trust the legacy (formerly mainstream) news at all. They lie relentlessly or simply ignore major stories that don’t fit their collectively decided narrative.”
Navarro had sharply criticized PM Modi’s camaraderie with Xi and Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, describing it as a “shame” for the leader of the world’s largest democracy to be “getting in bed” with the “two biggest authoritarians.”
“That doesn’t make any sense. I’m not sure what he’s thinking, particularly since India has been in a cold war – and sometimes a hot war – with China for decades,” Navarro told reporters on Monday.
Modi, who visited China after seven years to attend the SCO Summit, met with Xi and Putin in what many observers see as a show of Global South solidarity against Trump’s trade policies.
Navarro further said the US hoped Modi would “come around” to support the US, Europe, and Ukraine.
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