Now Musk Is Boosting Claims the Wisconsin Election Was ‘Stolen’
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After initially downplaying the vote’s importance, the world’s richest man was quick to promote accusations of electoral fraud.

Summary

Elon Musk, after spending $21 million backing conservative Brad Schimel in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, amplified election fraud claims following Schimel’s loss to liberal judge Susan Crawford.

Musk boosted a post by Alex Jones featuring Roger Stone, who alleged mail-in vote fraud. Schimel rejected the claims, urging supporters to accept the results.

Musk pivoted to highlighting a voter ID ballot measure, though Wisconsin already requires ID. Critics see his reaction as echoing Trump-era denialism.

Despite GOP pressure, Schimel’s concession stood out for its rare break from MAGA conspiracy rhetoric.

  • alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Sure, there are bots. There are also a lot of real people, politicians, journalists, analysts, software engineers etc.

    I actually tried to replace X a few weeks ago and considered Mastodon and Bluesky. Nobody I follow on X is on Mastodon, and only three are on Bluesky.

    • SovsensMester@feddit.dk
      9·
      1 day ago

      Go outside? I have never used Twitter and live a perfectly normal life. I have access to plenty of information and opinions from paid subscriptions to newspapers and personal blogs. No one can communicate anything serious on Twitter. For sport highlights or similar - I get it. For anything else - a social tool - people have simply forgotten to go outside and do real stuff with real people. You are lying to yourself by saying Twitter provides something you can’t live without.

      • alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        You answer to finding a platform that provides most of the information I want to have is to … go outside? Do you think that’s even remotely helpful?