{"id":15889,"date":"2024-11-03T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T10:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15889"},"modified":"2024-11-03T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T10:23:05","slug":"how-elon-musks-x-account-dominates-the-platform-ahead-of-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15889","title":{"rendered":"How Elon Musk\u2019s X Account Dominates the Platform Ahead of the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The billionaire has effectively become the star of his social media platform, transforming X into a reflection of his personal views before the election.<\/p>\n

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Days ahead of the presidential election, Elon Musk\u2019s centrality to his social media platform, X, has become more pronounced.<\/p>\n

Mr. Musk has posted more than 3,000 times on the site in the last month, according to a tally by The New York Times, campaigning heavily for former President Donald J. Trump. The tech mogul has also shared dozens of unfounded claims about the election, including that votes will be rigged against his preferred candidate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of his posts have traveled further and resounded more widely than ever as Mr. Musk\u2019s X account has come to dominate the platform, effectively making him the host of his own social media site. His account is the most popular on X by a significant margin, with more than 202 million followers. It drives the platform\u2019s daily conversation and nudges discussion to the right, according to independent research and an analysis by The Times. And engagement with his posts \u2014 including likes and reposts \u2014 has doubled over the past year, according to X\u2019s metrics.<\/p>\n

The repercussions of Mr. Musk\u2019s pre-eminence on X \u2014 especially as he casts doubt on the integrity of the election \u2014 could be profound.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s so consequential that someone who is such a partisan figure is inhabiting that piece of digital real estate,\u201d said Emerson Brooking, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council\u2019s Digital Forensic Research Lab, a group that studies online disinformation.<\/p>\n

Mr. Musk and X did not respond to requests for comment. Last month, Mr. Musk posted that X products were the \u201cbest thing on the Internet for truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The billionaire has effectively become the star of his social media platform, transforming X into a reflection of his personal views before the election.Days ahead of the presidential election, Elon Musk\u2019s centrality to his social media platform, X, has become more pronounced.Mr. Musk has posted more than 3,000 times on the site in the last month, according to a tally by The New York Times, campaigning heavily for former President Donald J. Trump. The tech mogul has also shared dozens of unfounded claims about the election, including that votes will be rigged against his preferred candidate.All of his posts have traveled further and resounded more widely than ever as Mr. Musk\u2019s X account has come to dominate the platform, effectively making him the host of his own social media site. His account is the most popular on X by a significant margin, with more than 202 million followers. It drives the platform\u2019s daily conversation and nudges discussion to the right, according to independent research and an analysis by The Times. And engagement with his posts \u2014 including likes and reposts \u2014 has doubled over the past year, according to X\u2019s metrics.The repercussions of Mr. Musk\u2019s pre-eminence on X \u2014 especially as he casts doubt on the integrity of the election \u2014 could be profound.\u201cIt\u2019s so consequential that someone who is such a partisan figure is inhabiting that piece of digital real estate,\u201d said Emerson Brooking, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council\u2019s Digital Forensic Research Lab, a group that studies online disinformation.Mr. Musk and X did not respond to requests for comment. Last month, Mr. Musk posted that X products were the \u201cbest thing on the Internet for truth.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15891,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15892,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions\/15892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}