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

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Musk's X allowing Maga activists to earn cash from conspiracies about Harris
inews.co.uk

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

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

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.

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