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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Summary

Elon Musk’s posts on X questioning election integrity and promoting conspiracy theories garner significantly more engagement than his other election-related content, with NBC News reporting 5.2 times more likes and 9.1 times more reposts.

Despite fact-checkers debunking many of Musk’s claims, such as alleged noncitizen voting, his posts casting doubt on the process reach millions.

Musk, a prominent Trump supporter, has donated over $118 million to a pro-Trump PAC and leverages his platform’s far-right tilt, drawing concern as election-related misinformation prompts heightened security measures for election officials nationwide.

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[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

I think by this point the only people really caring what this dumb fuck has to say are people with same low IQ.

[-] Entheon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately there's a decent number of people that meet this criteria

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most of them are bots only capable of copy-paste

(There are a lot of dumb people, don’t get me wrong, but on twitter, most the people spouting his nonsense are bots.)

[-] Eggyhead 12 points 1 month ago

And Russian troll farms

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, my first thought was 'who are they being shared to?' Because it's probably just the MAGA faithful. And they're going to believe it's a hoax if Trump loses anyway.

[-] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 14 points 1 month ago

Aren’t 9 out of 10, X posts, bot’s on X?

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Can't be, Elon said he was going to get rid of the bots when he was in charge.

/s

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

Interestingly, I'd say I give a shit about Tesla and SpaceX about 9 times less

[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This kind of shilling has to be considered a massive, unreported campaign contribution. Come on.

Edit: a word, for clarity

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

If you bang on about the election process not working and then win the election you have totally delegitimised yourself before you've even begun.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

No because see if they lose it's because woke goblins are living in the ballot boxes and eating all the trump votes but if they win it's because they voted so hard the goblins couldn't eat them all. It's just basic goblinomics

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