Naomi LaChance
Elon Musk, who owns one of the world’s biggest social media platforms, has spent many millions of dollars on politics as he helps Donald Trump slash the federal government and continue the administration’s attack on immigrants. Now, Musk is saying that he is losing the “propaganda war,” potentially through his own choices.
Recent polling shows people don’t like Musk. On Friday, numbers pundit Nate Silver posted on X that Musk’s popularity is at negative 14 points. Trump, for comparison, is at negative 5 points. The chart shows that Musk’s popularity markedly decreased when Trump took office, with 39.6 percent of respondents viewing him favorably as of this month.
Musk blamed this decline on liberals waging a successful propaganda campaign against him, and suggested that Republicans are not boosting him in kind. But he also more or less admitted he is making himself unpopular.
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