The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X has ramped up his support of his conservative super PAC and Trump.

Billionaire Elon Musk promoted debunked conspiracy theories about election fraud Thursday at the first of a series of planned campaign events across Pennsylvania meant to rally support for former President Donald Trump’s campaign.

At a town hall hosted at a high school outside Philadelphia, Musk referred to the false conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems was part of a plot to rig U.S. elections in recent years.

The company has broadly rejected any claims that it has participated in efforts to manipulate elections. Last year, it struck a $787.5 million settlement with Fox News in its defamation lawsuit against the media outlet over such claims.


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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    29 days ago

    We’re just going to normalize how a billionaire can just dump millions of dollars to political campaigns and tell people who to vote for?

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      That’s been normalized for ages. It’s just that before Musk, the billionaires didn’t advertise their ineptitude like this.