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JCMach1

(29,072 posts)
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 02:19 PM Jan 2025

Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference

I don't believe this this has been verified yet, but I believe it's evidence of what we basically already knew: there was massive social media engineering that supported Trump in the last election cycle.

When Elon Musk took over, everything changed. What started as a social media company became something much darker. I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical.

We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people's feeds. To make it look balanced, we also boosted some left-wing critics of Democrats, but it was all carefully calculated. These changes didn't just affect Americans - they impacted users worldwide...
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Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference (Original Post) JCMach1 Jan 2025 OP
Seems Zuckerberg's in on it too C_U_L8R Jan 2025 #1
Don't forget the TikTok CEO was there as well JCMach1 Jan 2025 #2

C_U_L8R

(48,785 posts)
1. Seems Zuckerberg's in on it too
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 02:21 PM
Jan 2025

He certainly did 'something' to earn that inauguration invite.

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