8/13/2024, 4:12:40 PM · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
The Federalist ^ | August 13, 2024 | Eddie Scarry
Posted on 08/13/2024 5:02:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Nearly two years after Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X, the billionaire is leveraging its power as a source of real-time news for millions of users to try to sway the outcome of the 2024 presidential election in favor of former President Donald Trump.
Musk has already asserted his voice in the political sphere for months. He’s pushed racist conspiracy theories about the Biden administration’s immigration policies, obsessed over the “woke mind virus,” a term used by conservatives to describe progressive causes, and warned of the country’s impending “doom” if a “red wave” does not materialize in November.
But now Musk, who is not only the owner but also the most followed user on X, has shifted to more direct campaigning for former President Donald Trump. It’s an unusual move for one of the world’s richest men and the leader of a mainstream social network.
Social media platforms have played a role in past elections: campaigns have used them to build support, foreign actors have used them in efforts to interfere in election outcomes and the industry was criticized in 2020 for restricting access to reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop. And some tech leaders have spoken out about their preferred candidate for the White House. But the major platforms themselves, and especially their owners, typically do not try to affect how users will vote, save for ensuring people have basic, accurate information about voting and removing influence operations that seek to manipulate people.
Musk has turned the platform he purchased for $44 billion into his own personal, political messaging machine, seeking to influence his more than 190 million followers and, in some cases, sharing false claims from the very top.
Musk announced his official endorsement for Trump in a post last month that received 2.3 million likes.
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You mean kinda like CNN is a pro-democrat machine??????
So?
CNN is a pro-Demorat machine.
Knocked it out of the park last night.
Drove the communists crazy.
Pro-Trump = insufficiently anti-Trump for CNN.
But cnn and the rest of the commie media is fine with licking Harris’s ass 24/7
They’re panicking.
The MSM has a monopoly on in-kind donations to political campaigns of their choice.
These people are totally oblivious to their hypocrisy. Musk should write an article about how they’ve turned CNN into a pro Kamala machine.
Yeah!
We ALL rely on CNN.
Disrupting the auto industry, space travel, the internet, social media, and now, presidential politics.
Cry harder :)
Disinformation = Information that the government/media prefer you were not made aware of.
Project much CNN?
“...The MSM has a monopoly...”
I enjoy referring to the MSM as the LSM (Lame Stream Media)...LOL
LMAO! Beaten at their own game and pissed off about it...
“Thank you sir-may I have another”?
Or like how Twitter was an anti-Trump, pro-Democrat machine in all years prior to 2024.
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