The Sinister Way Elon Musk Used X to Kill a Negative Story About Trump

Finally, the mainstream media is willing to say it: Elon Musk is meddling in November’s election.

As The New York Times reported Friday in a sweeping roundup of Musk’s campaign to elect Donald Trump, “the richest man in the world has involved himself in the U.S. election in a manner unparalleled in modern history.”

As the owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), Musk has been able to propagate conspiracy theories about the election , immigrants , and Democrats freely without pushback to his 201 million followers and the platform’s 500 million monthly active users. As the Times pointed out, since he endorsed Trump in July, Musk has posted at least 109 times about the Republican candidate and the election.

But the Times also confirmed something not previously known: Musk is coordinating with the Trump campaign to suppress negative stories about Trump.

Last month, X deactivated a reporter’s account after he shared leaked information from the Trump campaign about JD Vance. X blocked links to the findings and the journalist remains banned from the platform. The Times reported that X did so after the Trump campaign “connected with X to prevent the circulation of links to the platform, according to two people with knowledge of the events.”

Musk has used X to help Trump in other ways as well. Most recently, Musk took over the @America handle on the website to promote his America PAC, which now aims to mobilize nearly one million voters to cast ballots for Trump in November.

They are doing so by building out a ground game with 2,500 organizers in the field but also through digital efforts such as paying individuals $47 to get information on swing-state voters. As the Times highlights, Trump’s team seems to be leaning on Musk’s PAC and other outside groups to carry out these operations. This is, in part, because of new federal guidelines that allow this kind of campaign outsourcing.

It appears that Musk is trying his best to become the “ unofficial president ” and take over the Trump campaign, like he’s taken over all his other failed projects.