MSNBC political contributor Jason Johnson Condemned conspiracy theories being spread online Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris alleged fraud in vote counting because Elon Musk’s Starlink internet satellites rigged the machines To provide election advice to President-elect Donald Trump.
Johnson appeared on Joey Reed’s “The Readout” show on Monday to discuss the conspiracy theories being shared on various social media platforms like X, Bluesky and TikTok.
Johnson compared the incident to “electoral denialism”. Spread by President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters in 2020.
His comments were Reported by Mediaite.
Johnson said that two weeks after the election, “conspiracies about the results are still running rampant, except this time, we’re seeing it on the other side of the aisle, with some people on the left questioning the validity of the results.” Picking up.”
Johnson referred to the theory that Musk’s Starlink satellite internet providers hacked vote tabulation machines and changed the count in Trump’s favor.
“Now, there’s no evidence that any of this is true,” Johnson said.
“Needless to say, voting machines are not connected to the internet during the election process.”
Johnson said false claims are “spreading like wildfire on social media, getting millions of views on places like TikTok and X and Twitter, proving that no side of the political spectrum is immune from election misinformation.” Is.”
He said he was “personally surrounded by concerned friends and relatives” who were asking him about Musk’s theories about election rigging.
Trump’s victory and Musk’s active role in defeating President-elect Harris has prompted social media users to join rival apps like Bluesky and Threads. Musk owns X after acquiring the company formerly known as Twitter for $44 billion in 2022.
From election day, At least 1.25 million people have signed Until BlueSky, the decentralized platform founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Threads, the Meta-owned app that was created to rival X, has not disclosed how many users have joined since the beginning of this month.
But Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Threads has more than 275 million monthly users — up from 150 million in April.
