Data compiled by the NBC News Decision Desk shows that Musk’s election conspiracy theories and doubts have vastly outperformed his other posts about the election.

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.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    17 days ago

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

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        17 days 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.)

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      3·
      17 days 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.

  • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    17 days ago

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

    Edit: a word, for clarity