Washington – The emergence of Elon Musk, owner of X as the most influential person around President Donald Trump, has created an extraordinary dynamic – a White House Advisor using one of the world’s most powerful information platforms so that the government’s talkings Scare your inhibitors to sell points.
In recent times, Musk has used X to promote Trump’s posts for its 215 million followers, attack an agency which he is trying to shut as “evil” and a The Treasury claims the employee who resigned under pressure on the payment system.
They have their use of social media platforms, which at one time has become a Kadgel and a megaphone for the Republican administration, in which their power to shape voters’ approach is only increasing, because more American social media and influence People change to get their news.
Musk is not bound to all other federal workers for all equal morality and financial revelations as they are classified as a special government employee. Trump rejected concerns about the conflict of Musk’s interests earlier this week, saying, “Where we think there is a struggle or a problem, we will not let him go to it.”
Yet for the world’s richest man holding an office in the White House Complex to control the lever of one of the most impressive online communication channels, controlling the single-class, “unimaginable in our current system of the government” “Hai, Steven Levitsky said, a political scientist, a political scientist, a political scientist said. Writer of Harvard University and “How Democracy Die”.
“This is a combination of economic, media and political power that I think has never been seen before in any democracy on Earth,” he said.
Requests were not refunded from Musk’s Special Commission, Government Efficiency Department and X for comments.
One leg in two powerful world
The close relationship between Musk’s X account and the administration of Trump has not only been criticized as it gives Trump an unusually large mouthpiece. The ownership of X’s musk may also give them financial incentives to use their own platform rather than other routes to spread the most important and important government information.
In the first two weeks of Trump’s tenure, Musk has used California’s wildfires, federal expenses, cabinet pics and its long -held celebrity catches to increase the points of the President for their vast following. He used X to criticize and intimidate those who spoke against their far -reaching acquisition of government agencies as the head of Dogi.
She also organized a livestream on X, in which entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and two Republican Senator invite users to listen to the work of Dogi, to discuss the work of Dogi. Twelve hours later, Dogge posted it on Facebook for non-explorers to listen to recording.
The very small social platform of Trump’s stake in truth social – which he transferred to an autocratic trust last year, is the only beneficiary – another example of such consolidation of power.
Musk insisted that his ex -posting about Dogo and other government business is to benefit the public as a transparency measure. Supporters say that he deserves credit for sharing his unfiltered ideas and strategies, and they see their style as a fresh air breath after years of the government.
He has said that Dogge assigned the task of reducing federal expenses, posting all his tasks online – although its official official website is currently empty, only with tagline, “People voted for major improvement.”
A mouthpiece for Trump’s stories
Since it has become clear that Kasturi will join administration, he has repeatedly amplified Trump’s narratives on X, where the owner of the platform is most commonly used and allegedly often of a new user’s first account Is recommended in form.
Sometimes those narratives include misleading information. Last month, after the wildfire burning through the Los Angeles, Musk shared another user post, saying “Trump exposes California’s water” while “Biden and Newsomo burnt the wildfire.”
Los Angeles Times reported that the Core of Engineers of the Army started releasing a large flow of water from two California reservoirs on Friday and continued to do so over the weekend. But the federally controlled water flows into the field in California’s crop-rich Central Valley, not the Los Angeles County’s neighborhood after the deadly fire of last month. This was also released when it was not required by the farmers.
In December, before Trump, Musk temporarily helped him immerse a government funding deal, attacking the law by hitting displeasure with an edge of X post, which he had described as extreme expenses.
Recently, Musk has taken the US agency to carry forward Dogi’s efforts to shut down international development, or USAID, to label the agency as “evil” and “criminal organizations” Posted on Sunday.
Lack of threats and transparency
Musk has also used the stage to explain that other people have committed crimes. It is indicating from the finger that, from the West Wing’s office adjacent to the Wing Wing, can be seen as the administration’s approval and thus as the Department of Justice.
Acting Deputy Secretary, Treasury Department, David Labric resigned under pressure on the reach of the payment system, Musk posted that Labric had “committed a crime” that the mafia looks like people who steal the preschool cookies. ” It is not clear whether the law, if any, could have been broken.
At least one is ready to hear the suggestions coming from the prosecutor Musk’s stage. Interim American Attorney Ed Martin recently thanked an anonymous Pro-Trum X account when he recommended that he “looking at another user” who posted the Dogge while criticizing Dogi.
On Monday, Musk posted that he “removed” a government agency 18F, which worked on technology projects such as IRS’s direct file program. The news, which was not shared elsewhere, created confusion about whether the direct file is still available to taxpayers, but the free filing program is still available, at least for the coming tax season.
Critics say that instead of complete transparency, Musk is only showing what he wants to tell about the commission that he takes. The X owner has suspended the accounts of some X users who have posted the names of their Dogi team members. And several details of the commission’s work have been left unclear as it has rapidly controlled the agency database, reduced the cost and gained access to the US Treasury Payment System without Congress’s approval.
Staining
The effect of Musk in Trump Administration comes as other CEOs that run the world’s largest social media companies, honored the President and even changed the policies to align with his world. Is.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tiktok CEO Shu Zee Chu all attended the inauguration of Trump. Zuckerberg, who was threatened to imprison by Trump last year, recently moved to remove the policies of his platforms with facts and resonated Trump’s concerns that the government has given social media companies ” The sensor “harassed for a valid speech.
Meanwhile, the future of Tiktok in the US depends on the app to find new ownership. Trump has played the deal in the broker and suggested that the government may detect a ownership stake.
Steven Livingston, the founding director of the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics at the University of George Washington, said Musk’s role shows how American democracy is already staggering.
He said, “This is not for the desire of a billionaire and the Congress,” he said. “Where do X and Elon Musk end and the government begins? I am not sure where that line is now.