#ElonMusk has steadily ramped up his criticism of #Biden…. Musk has posted about Biden ≥7X a month since Jan, attacking the president for everything from his age to his policies on immigration & health. Before that, he posted about Biden twice in Dec & not at all in Nov. In all, #Musk had posted nearly 40X about Biden this year, compared w/about 30X for all of last year.
In contrast, #Musk had posted >20X this yr about #Trump. In those posts, #ElonMusk defended Trump, arguing that he is a #victim of #media & prosecutorial #bias in the #criminal cases that Trump faces.
Musk’s posts…signal…a willingness to tip the #political scales as the owner of an influential #SocialMedia#platform, something that no other leader of a social media firm has done. And Musk exerts outsize #influence over the political discourse on X, where he regularly posts to his 184M followers
#Musk has lost a lot of his clout, but his RW rhetoric is harmful to Pres Biden, Dems & #democracy given his SM influence:
Last month, he posted on X that Pres Biden “obviously barely knows what’s going on.” “He's just a tragic front for a far left pol machine"-29th time this year -he'd posted about the pres. on X. By bringing an ideological bent to X, Musk mirrors what media moguls such as Murdoch are doing -helping shape their outlets’ coverage & broader pol discourse. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/elon-musk-ramps-up-anti-biden-posts-on-x/