How Elon Musk turned X into a pro-Trump echo chamber

As Musk has quickly become one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters, he has transformed X into a MAGA mouthpiece.

In April 2022, days after Elon Musk offered to buy the app then known as Twitter, the tech billionaire pledged that under his stewardship the platform would not take sides in politics. 

“For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally,” Musk posted on the app, now renamed X. 

It hasn’t worked out that way. 

In the two years since then, Musk has transformed the platform, once regarded as the global town square, into an echo chamber amplifying right-leaning causes and in particular former President Donald Trump’s electoral campaign, according to academic research, public opinion surveys, data on X’s most influential users, engagement metrics and reports about X’s working directly with the Trump campaign. 

And in recent months, Musk has become one of Trump’s biggest donors and most energetic supporters, turning X into an unofficial house organ for his campaign. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-turned-x-trump-echo-chamber-rcna174321

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