Overview

• X’s Community Notes attached context to Peter Navarro’s posts, saying India’s Russian oil purchases reflect energy security needs, comply with sanctions, and highlight U.S. imports of Russian goods as a double standard.
• Navarro denounced the notes as propaganda, attacked Elon Musk, and ran an X poll claiming “foreign interests” were interfering in U.S. discourse.
• He doubled down by calling India’s purchases “blood money” and asserting India did not buy large volumes of Russian crude before the Ukraine invasion.
• Musk defended the platform’s crowd-sourced fact-checks, saying Community Notes “corrects everyone” and that its data and code are public.
• India’s foreign ministry formally rejected Navarro’s statements as inaccurate and misleading, with the dispute unfolding as the Trump administration’s added tariffs push some duties toward roughly 50%.