Political tweets made up 17% percent of his feed this year — up from two percent in 2021.
By Faiz Siddiqui and Jeremy B. Merrill, The Washington PostElon Musk arrives before a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, July 24, 2024.
X recently claimed that 35 million swing voters use the platform every month. With polls nationally and in crucial swing states showing a tightening race, where people get their information and the quality of that information could well decide the next president, as well as control of Congress. Despite a more than 30 percent drop in the number of people actively tweeting, according to figures reported last year, X remains one of the most influential platforms for disseminating information on the election. President Joe Biden took to the platform to announce he was leaving the presidential race, minutes before news organizations reported on his departure.
Until Musk’s purchase, owners of large mainstream U.S. social media platforms typically refrained from publicly supporting candidates, despite accusations of left-wing bias from some conservatives who say content moderation disproportionately targeted their views. Those concerns came to a head in 2020 when multiple social media sites limited the spread of story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later said the company had made a mistake in doing so.
Many conservatives cheered Musk’s moves, which they said have allowed greater room for dissent and promoted more open conversations. “That responsibility to foster an accurate and authoritative information environment necessarily means that you must therefore step back from using it as a personal mouthpiece - much less an inflammatory one,” he added.
The incident fueled suspicions that the temporary throttling of pro-Harris accounts was not coincidental.
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