cheater? – The boss of
American subtlety is still not there. Since the start of the American presidential campaign, the owner of the social network X, Elon Musk, has not hidden his total support for candidate and former president Donald Trump. As recently as this Saturday, he was present at the meeting organized by the Republican in Butler, Pennsylvania, the same place where he had narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in July.
It’s neither the first nor the only one, but this particular collaboration raises questions. That of the neutrality of an information tip. “Elon Musk has control over the X algorithm and puts forward candidate Trump without hiding it. This questions the functioning of democracy and freedom,” analyzes Nicole Bacharan, historian and political scientist, specialist in politics and American society and transatlantic relations.
“X is a war machine in the American presidential election. The campaign is extremely present on social networks,” she continues. On a daily basis, almost 100 million Americans browse X. “Like everywhere in the world, we get our information partly via these platforms,” admits the specialist.
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