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Elon Musk’s America PAC is buying ads on Elon Musk’s social media platform X to promote Republican nominee Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. According to reporting by Wired, the Trump-supporting billionaire’s political action committee spent more than $166,000 for 59 ads targeting swing states between July 8 and Oct. 1.
On one hand, this isn't particularly surprising. Since being purchased by the world’s richest midlife crisis stereotype, the website Musk bought in October 2022 has devolved into a right-wing thunderdome of misinformation. The billionaire’s personal X account, once the place to read Musk’s thoughts on his companies like Tesla and SpaceX, has increasingly become an outlet for his alarming far-right views.
After Musk endorsed Trump in July, The Wall Street Journal reported on the exorbitant amount of money he planned to funnel through his new America PAC to get Trump elected. Since then, Musk's super PAC has been involved in some pretty dubious election practices.
