The rapprochements between the businessman Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), and Donald Trump They have been involved in a hard-fought US election campaign, the result of which will mark the geopolitical future of the world. If during the months prior to the elections, Musk has participated actively in republican events and with millionaire contributionsduring the scrutiny and on the verge of meeting the new tenant of the White House, the owner of has been accused of supporting Trump with a visual change in your social network.
Since Tuesday, the day the first polling stations opened, X’s ‘likes’ have become an urn. That is, when an American clicks on the typical heart, a cartoon appears.
The networks did not take long to explode in the face of this controversy, considering that it was a tacit support to the Republican candidate in the middle of election day, which could be considered that the platform was being manipulated to influence the people’s vote.
No evidence
Despite the virality of the events, the truth is that objectively there is no evidence that this is an action in favor of Trump, far from what one would expect. The same social network already warns, through a new mechanism that aims to fight against ‘fake news’, that the change “it’s not specifically to support Trump” and that responds to “election day 2024.” And so it is: the ballot box is not of any specific color – red is related to Republicans and blue to Democrats – nor does there appear any symbol that suggests it has to do with the candidate, beyond the context more than known between both.
The photo in the White House
The owner of X has also published a photo in which he appears in the Oval Office of the White House -generated with AI- with a white object in his hands that looks like a toilet or a pica of bathroomand with the phrase: “Let that sink in.” Some Internet users have understood that this is a kind of metaphor with a possible “reform” in the White House due to the results that, for the moment, give victory to Donald Trump.
