Judd Legum on How Elon Musk is Helping Trump

The Al Franken Podcast

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

n the two years since Elon Musk bought Twitter, he's turned irt into a leading source of right wing propaganda. He spreads hateful rhetoric, platforms white nationalists and engages with unfounded conspiracy theories. He lies about President Biden, promotes racist ideology and pushes his own commentary onto X users whether they follow him or not. All of this is working to do get Donald Trump elected President again. Judd Legum from the very popular newletter Popular Information explains the damage Elon could be doing in this year's elections.

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0:48.4	finally mean it. Judd Legum who puts out the four times weekly newsletter,
0:54.2	Popular Information joins me.
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1:04.0	And today, Judd talks about Elon Musk and how Musk has been using X, formerly known as Twitter,
1:11.0	which he bought at the price of just 44 billion dollars, which was a lot of money, even for him.
1:20.0	But he changed the algorithm so that the post that the random user of X will most frequently
1:25.1	see are from Elon Musk.
1:28.2	I don't know if you remember the tweet Musk sent out just a few days after he bought Twitter so it was still
1:35.5	Twitter then. The tweet he had chosen to share was a baseless conspiracy
1:40.9	theory that the guy who hit Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer at
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