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Elon Musk's SuperPAC Is Misleading (Some) Voters Into Thinking They Registered To Vote; Collecting Tons Of Data
Elon Musks SuperPAC Is Misleading (Some) Voters Into Thinking They Registered To Vote; Collecting Tons Of Data
Politics
from the seems-kinda-fraudsy dept
Mon, Aug 5th 2024 09:27am - Mike Masnick
If youre a swing state voter who thought AmericaPAC was helping you register to vote, think again. The Elon Musk-backed SuperPAC seems more interested in your personal info than your civic participation. It appears to be misleading visitors in order to collect all sorts of data, specifically on swing state voters, according to an incredible CNBC report.
I tend to think that the discourse around all three of the following things is overblown: the impact of SuperPACs on elections, concerns about dark patterns, and how much the owner of a social media platform can influence an election. But Elon Musk sure seems to be working overtime to change my mind on all three things.
Remember how Musk took over Twitter because he thought its leadership was managing the company in too political a manner? Indeed, while he was in the process of trying to buy the site, one of the things he said is that the site needed to be politically neutral to deserve public trust.
Since taking over Twitter, renaming it to X, and reinstating the worst people in the world, Elon continues to fall deeper and deeper into MAGA-fueled fantasyland, leading to his official endorsement of Donald Trump and turning ExTwitter into an all-day, every-day promotional campaign for the former President. ... Around the same time that he endorsed Trump, it was announced that Musk would be donating to a SuperPAC that was created to support Trump. Some of the details have been disputed, but Musk admits he created a SuperPAC to support Trump.
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Politics
from the seems-kinda-fraudsy dept
Mon, Aug 5th 2024 09:27am - Mike Masnick
If youre a swing state voter who thought AmericaPAC was helping you register to vote, think again. The Elon Musk-backed SuperPAC seems more interested in your personal info than your civic participation. It appears to be misleading visitors in order to collect all sorts of data, specifically on swing state voters, according to an incredible CNBC report.
I tend to think that the discourse around all three of the following things is overblown: the impact of SuperPACs on elections, concerns about dark patterns, and how much the owner of a social media platform can influence an election. But Elon Musk sure seems to be working overtime to change my mind on all three things.
Remember how Musk took over Twitter because he thought its leadership was managing the company in too political a manner? Indeed, while he was in the process of trying to buy the site, one of the things he said is that the site needed to be politically neutral to deserve public trust.
Since taking over Twitter, renaming it to X, and reinstating the worst people in the world, Elon continues to fall deeper and deeper into MAGA-fueled fantasyland, leading to his official endorsement of Donald Trump and turning ExTwitter into an all-day, every-day promotional campaign for the former President. ... Around the same time that he endorsed Trump, it was announced that Musk would be donating to a SuperPAC that was created to support Trump. Some of the details have been disputed, but Musk admits he created a SuperPAC to support Trump.
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Elon Musk's SuperPAC Is Misleading (Some) Voters Into Thinking They Registered To Vote; Collecting Tons Of Data (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Aug 5
OP
it's only a matter of time before he gets caught doing something illegal for putin
prodigitalson
Aug 6
#2
travelingthrulife
(285 posts)1. This guy just needs to go.
It does sound 'fraudsy'.
prodigitalson
(2,747 posts)2. it's only a matter of time before he gets caught doing something illegal for putin
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(112,775 posts)3. Sounds like fraud to me