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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MAGNIFICENT FAILURE: Musk And MAGA Influencers' Talarico Smear
Republicans must have their own internal polling that shows Ken Paxton is lagging behind James Talarico with three weeks left before the midterms so they do what they do best: Create a lie, turn it into a conspiracy theory, then have it amplified through their millions of social media 'influencer' and bot accounts. It started with a big fat lie by Nick Sortor, who should be sued for defamation with a tweet claiming Talarico was discharged from a…
(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = In the Texas federal Senate election, which has emerged as a battleground in the U.S. midterm elections, the Democratic Party, which had temporarily suspended campaigning due to the flu...
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 […]
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