Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump
Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump
Billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who purchased the social media platform Twitter and renamed it X, is “all in” on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The New York Times reports. X has “reportedly worked with Donald Trump’s campaign to censor material that could be harmful to the form...
Someone tell the Republicans we found the immigrant interfering with the election.
The? Rupert Murdoch has been
running a huge propaganda networkplaying 'defense' for republicans for decades.An AFRICAN immigrant.
[blows dust off of cover]
Yeeah, a lot of these "not really news" lately.. but it's good that they're talked about at least.
O RLY?
Someone please tell me that if we stop Trump, Musk shouts NO IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN THIS WAY! and then spontaneously, melts, or shatters like glass, or gets swallowed up by a chasm, or eaten by hyenas.
And then every cybertruck, every tesla, every Spacex capsule and every Starlink satellite simultaneously turns into magic dust before evaporating into nothing.
Almost 100% onboard. The exception is SpaceX.
Obviously I don't know the exact specifics of how they're successful and I don't care.
Leave SpaceX out as the "black sheep", even though they should be the "golden child".
I wish SpaceX continued success and a future of good luck.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/spacex-polluted-waters-texas-regulators-rcna166283
Hexavalent chromium in our waters. Yum!
I think Tesla could also be a company driving positive change if he wasn't cutting costs and pushing stupid products
It can be successful with Musk. Would love to see it separated from him
Ready or Not rules: If trump doesn't win in november then Musk and his entire empire explodes.
He will get eaten by hyenas, his investors, and then put in a cell.
Musk is on the trump mushroom dick train because he's afraid he's going to get indicted, and trump has already offered him a full pardon.
This makes too much sense to not be true.
Elon doesn't want to have to compete with Chinese makes rolling into Mexico. Trump promised 200% tariffs on Mexican produced cars. He basically has a captive market in the US on connected cars I don't really see anything in our domestic market that is comparable.
It's funny how this maps exactly onto the Hunter Biden files, except that everything Republicans lied about happening is now actually happening.
Every accusation is an admission
I thought that was the whole point of buying Twitter…
That doesn't make it legal
Elon is getting fat. Like old fat.
Yes, and that is clearly the reason he purchased the platform.
He purchased the platform because he was forced to buy it after he fucked around.
Unfortunately, we're the ones that get to "find out".
African immigrants are stealing the election
Throw the fuckers in prison already.
A) I don't think there's anything illegal, here, and B) of course large private agencies manipulate elections, from news agencies to SuperPACs to social media, and C) there's not a heck of a lot we can do about that.
The best thing we can do is smarten up and think for ourselves. In short, we're doomed!😅
I agree that it’s probably not illegal for him to do that. But it is solvable if we decide to legislate some long overdue guardrails.
Just be careful how you do it. The First Amendment gives a lot of leeway for people to be shitty.
I've always said that in order to get access to the internet, you should need a yearly updated photograph of your genitals that is easily displayed whenever you post something online.
That way, when you try to sway someones opinions, they can see how big your penis is, and say "No actually, shut up. You have a small penis, Elon Musk!"
Finally a way for the big penis club members to be taken seriously intellectually, and not just paraded around for our good looks!
It's not illegal in the broke an actual government law sense, but it certainly violates every moral principle I've ever heard of. Instead of being generous and grateful for his wealth, the richest man has decided to buy the largest place where news is shared on the internet, fired almost all the employees primarily out of spite, and pirated the network for the sake of turning it into a propaganda platform for an attempted dictator who will make him even richer.
This is what cancel culture is made for. Not some comedian misspeaking. This.
Trumptards took over Clubhouse without the backing from the CEO. It's a collective strategy, and not one man's bigotry
How does a US citizen "interfere" in a US election? Nothing described in the article is illegal. "Interfere" is usually used to denote actions by outside powers.
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Xwitter is definitely promoting disinformation, which is election interference and can be committed by American citizens. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman pled guilty in 2022 to hiring a firm to make calls spreading disinformation during the run-up to the 2020 election.
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Xwitter is providing a measurable, financial benefit to the Trump campaign. That's soft money, and using soft money to exceed individual campaign contribution limits is against the law.
Also pretty sure that creating a voter registration site that only appears to register voters in swing states (while gathering their data so you can follow up with only the ones you want to target) could also lead to criminal charges if the matter were to be pursued.
Wohl and Burkman were fined for sending threatening and intimidating robocalls. Not spreading misinformation.
Fox News is also providing measurable benefit to Trump. They also spread disinformation. If euther of those things were illegal they'd been shut down back when they were calling Obama a Kenyan Muslim.
Please identify exactly which law Musk is breaking and with exactly which action.
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There are lots of potential ways, especially when you own a large social media platform that doesnt have rational reasons for blocking certain political content over others that skew a particular way.
There are no laws on the books that force social media platforms to tolerate all political expression. While there are laws allowing then to be sued for violating civil rights, that's not the same thing. Selective bans on people of specific political background are still a common thing across the internet.
So until that's remedied we're trapped with billionaire cretins trying to swing politics with their huge platforms.
Lol tell that to Tina Peters.