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Musk's X allowing Maga activists to earn cash from conspiracies about U.S. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris (inews.co.uk)
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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.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 months ago

Musk's X allowing Maga activists and Musk to earn cash from conspiracies about Harris

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 15 points 3 months ago

You say that as though he isn't one of them.

[-] 0x815@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 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.]

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 6 points 3 months ago

How is this any different from any other billaire owned fake news bullshit?

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