Elon Musk is the midterms' biggest disinformation risk
Musk donated $276 million to Republican campaigns, according to The New York Times, amid criticism regarding his amplification of false claims about Democratic candidates on X.
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The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is back on the US political scene during the mid-term elections. Faced with the threat of democratic victories, the founder of SpaceX spends without counting and spread false information on his social network X.
Elon Musk’s Megaphone Propels Conspiracy Theory
“Elon Musk elevated a false conspiracy theory about Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico over the weekend, lifting a fringe claim concerning the Texan’s mental health to the forefront of users’ X feeds, where it garnered hundreds of thousands of impressions,” the Washington Post reports. Wrote Musk: “The Talarico campaign is hiding something big that voters […]
Elon Musk’s megaphone propels conspiracy theory about James Talarico
The billionaire has a history of elevating false claims like the one about the Democratic Senate nominee, but his control of X gives him outsize influence ahead of the midterms.
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