Musk's X allowing Maga activists to earn cash from conspiracies about Harris
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Pro-Trump activists and Elon Musk's social media platform X are making money from baseless conspiracies and disinformation in the run-up to the US election

Pro-Trump activists are earning cash from spreading conspiracy theories about Kamala Harris on Elon Musk‘s X platform, an i investigation has found.

Prominent Maga (Make America Great Again) activists have earned money from adverts that appear alongside posts spreading wild falsehoods including a claim that the Democratic presidential candidate “kills babies” as part of “a deal with Satan for power”.

This is the latest in a series of i investigations uncovering how the billionaire tech tycoon is profiting from revenue on advertising that appears alongside posts spreading hate and conspiracies on his social media platform.

    • 0x815@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      The article relates to the share of advertising revenue these Maga guys get. Musk and his dozens of shareholders earn Xitter’s bottom line, of course, but this is a different story.

      [Edit typo.]