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# With Trump alliance, Elon Musk became exactly what he vowed to expose
- URL: https://werd.io/with-trump-alliance-elon-musk-became-exactly-what-he-vowed/
- Published: 2024-11-23T20:54:42.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-23T20:54:42.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Mike Masnick at MSNBC](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-musk-partnership-x-twitter-files-rcna180427)\]

As Mike Masnick points out here, the hypocrisy from Elon Musk about collusion between tech and government is staggering:

> "Before, we were told that White House officials’ merely reaching out to social media companies about election misinformation was a democracy-ending threat. Now, the world’s richest man has openly used his platform to boost one candidate, ridden that campaign’s success into the White House himself, and ... crickets. The silence is deafening."

[There never was an anti-conservative bias on social media](https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/what-the-twitter-files-reveal-about-free-speech-and-social-media) \- but now there's active collusion between the owner of X and the Trump administration, to the extent that he's actually got a formal role in it. X is a clear threat to democratic values; further to that, it's an obvious warning against *any* centralized social media site of its magnitude. No one person should have control over how so many people learn from the world and communicate with each other. And yet, here we are.

[#Democracy](https://werd.io/tag/Democracy)

\[[Link](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-musk-partnership-x-twitter-files-rcna180427)\]