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Hours after X boss Elon Musk indirectly responded to White House Advisor Peter Navarro's meltdown following one of his posts targeting India on its Russian oil purchase was flagged by a community note on X, the latter again questioned the fact-check of the social media platform and asked, “Should X put up posts like one below where foreign interests masquerade as objective observers and interfere with domestic US economics and politics?”

How X community mechanism works

According to X, community notes aim to create a "better-informed world" by empowering people on the social media platform to "collaboratively add context to potentially misleading posts". Contributors can leave notes on any post, and if enough contributors from different points of view rate that note as helpful, the note will be publicly shown on a post, it says.

Navarro's anti-India posts

In the last few weeks, Navarro has made a series of attacks on New Delhi for its energy ties with Russia. India has been maintaining that its energy procurement is driven by national interest and market dynamics.

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Last week, Navarro accused India of being an "oil money laundromat for the Kremlin" and described it as "strategic freeloading" that New Delhi continues to buy Russian weapons while urging American defence firms to transfer sensitive military technologies and set up manufacturing plants in India.

India-US relations nosdive

The relations between New Delhi and Washington are on a downturn after Trump doubled tariffs on Indian goods to a whopping 50 per cent including a 25 per cent additional duty for India's purchase of Russian crude oil.

India described the US action as "unfair, unjustified and unreasonable" and even wondered why it had been singled out for the punitive action. Surprisingly, the US has not imposed any punitive measures on China, the largest importer of Russian crude oil.

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Defending its purchase of Russian crude oil, India has been maintaining that its energy procurement is driven by national interest and market dynamics. India turned to purchasing Russian oil sold at a discount after Western countries imposed sanctions on Moscow and shunned its supplies over its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

(With inputs from agency)