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Elon Musk Is the Steve Bannon of 2024

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In 2022 , Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed the site X , renamed it "X" in a bid to prop up President Donald Trump , says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer : In 2016 , a former Breitbart spokesman told journalists: “It will be the propaganda arm of the administration.” Zelizer says it's similar to what happened in 2016 .

In the case of X, Musk dispensed with even the trappings of legitimate news content and proceeded to unleash a veritable firehose of propagandistic dogshit into what had once been considered America ’s digital “public commons” The political rightwing is incredibly adept at leveraging media and technology towards its electoral advantage.

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