Are left-leaning social media users Meta’s “Twitter Killer” Social Media App Taking on Threads and posting conspiracy theories alleging Newly elected President Donald Trump was declared the winner A competition that was full of fraud.
A conspiracy theory that is gaining popularity on the left alleges Prominent Trump supporter Elon Musk has Used its Starlink internet satellites to hack voting machines and change the results.
“Are you kidding me?!?!?! someone who is openly preaching [sic] Because one of the presidential parties is giving internet connections to voting machines and saying ‘they can hack everything’ and that is no cause for concern?!??!” wrote one user on the threads.
A Harris supporter posters on threads Wrote: “Multiple sources suggest Starlink was involved in tabulating votes. Starlink. Owned and controlled by Elon Musk. Who worked for the Trump campaign. hello? Any?”
“I love that no one in the press is talking about how Elon Musk rigged the election,” posted a user under the handle alex.nick.jungle.
one more Threads user wrote: “Uoooo.” Evidence of widespread voter fraud and votes being thrown in the garbage/forest and mysteriously disappearing and being uncounted. It’s going to be crazy.”
Similar conspiracy theories have surfaced on Musk’s own social media platform, X, as well as TikTok.
“Raise your hand if you thought Elon Musk’s Starlink was the ‘little secret’ to winning or stealing this election,” a X user wrote,
A Threads commenter noted the discrepancy between election results in North Carolina, where Josh Stein, a Democrat, won the governor’s race by more than 800,000 votes, while Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the state By less than 200,000 votes.
The North Carolina races for Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State were all won by Democrats.
The success of Democrats in down-ballot races in the Tar Heel state despite Trump’s victory has fueled conspiracy theories online.
“Trump’s margin in NC is based entirely on fewer votes,” a threads user wrote. “This makes absolutely no sense!”
Another Threads user couldn’t understand why Trump easily won Iowa despite a last-minute poll by respected researcher Ann Selzer that found Harris leading in the state by three points.
“Ann Seltzer [sic]According to the gold standard for poll watchers, Kamala was ahead by 3 points in Iowa, and she lost by 13 points? Strange things were happening everywhere.” the threads user wrote.
Taylor Lorenz, former Washington Post technology columnist, Reported in his Substack newsletter Threads users were widely sharing a post from someone named “Stephen Spoonmore,” a respected tech expert who was nicknamed “Liberal Q.”
According to a widely shared post, a “full blown #fascist takeover is underway” after Trump supporters managed to “hack the tabulation machines”.
“Beware these people are sociopaths who will kill you, they have done this to others, so act accordingly,” Spoonmore’s post warned.
“The suggestion that threads are saturated or overrun with this type of content belies reality,” a Meta spokesperson told The Post.
Meta uses independent fact-checkers who analyze posts flagged by other users. Posts which are considered false will be given a rating.
The most severe ratings, which label content as “false” or “altered”, are affected by the most dramatic distribution limitations – thus ensuring that it is viewed by the fewest people.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that Threads, which launched in July last year, has built a base of 275 million monthly users.
The user base is 175% larger than the 100 million users the company reported a year ago. Zuckerberg told investors last month that Threads was signing up more than 1 million users per day.
Meta launched Threads to compete with Musk’s social media platform X, which has an estimated 318 million monthly users, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
