2 years in, Trump surrogate Elon Musk has remade X as a conservative megaphone

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Musk's most tangible support for Trump has come from his wallet and his newfound side gig as a MAGA rally hype man.
65% : Since endorsing the former president after the July assassination attempt, Musk has ramped up his public promotion: interviewing Trump live on X, appearing with him at a rally in Butler, Pa., at the site of the first attempt on Trump's life, and conducting his own town halls in Pennsylvania.
45% : But Musk's outspoken advocacy for Trump stands out given what X is and the role he plays there, Harbath said.
42% : One of Musk's first big changes after taking control was to reinstate Trump after an unscientific poll of the site's users.
40% : However, Trump has not posted as much as he did before the ban and uses his own Truth Social platform as his primary outlet.
40% : While Musk has in the past instructed engineers to figure out ways to turn up the reach of his own posts, it's not clear he has also done so for pro-Trump content, though Musk has drastically ramped up his own posts about Trump in recent months.
28% : "Regardless of who users follow, both posts by Musk and pro-Trump content have become unavoidable on X.Twitter's previous leadership banned Trump in 2021 after his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying his tweets broke its rules against glorifying violence.
26% : This year he has become one of the leading boosters of baseless claims that Democrats are bringing in immigrants to illegally vote for them -- a conspiracy theory that Trump and other Republicans have made core to their narratives about the 2024 election.
23% : Musk has put his money and mouth behind returning Donald Trump to the White House, pouring $75 million into a super PAC he created to turn out voters in battleground states and using X to cheerlead for Trump, smear Vice President Kamala Harris, and amplify rumors and conspiracy theories to his 202 million followers.
14% : In the wake of two assassination attempts against Trump, he has repeatedly questioned why no one is trying to assassinate Harris.
12% : In addition to support for Trump and attacks on Harris and Democrats, he regularly traffics in unverified rumors, misleading claims and outright falsehoods, through what he posts himself and what he reshares or replies to from others.

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