A large-scale Bloomberg analysis reveals that Elon Musk has been spreading debunked theories of undocumented voters swaying the US election, and growing his influence in the process — making him the biggest promoter of anti-immigrant conspiracies on X, the social media platform he owns. Bloomberg's Sarah Frier joined Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Technology."
If Trump loses, he and Mussk will say that hordes of migrants aided the Democrats.
"My colleagues and I recently did a major data analysis of Elon Musk’s posts about immigration and voter fraud. He frames migration to the US as something chaotic, unchecked and scary — and a tool that could be weaponized by the Democrats to rig the election in November. Musk owns X, and has more than 200 million followers. Immigration and voter fraud has become his most popular policy topic online, our analysis found."
Washington Post says Musk was an illegal alien
The Washington Post said Elon Musk denied in a late-night post having worked illegally in the United States, following the report that said Musk lacked the legal status to build the start-up that made him a millionaire in the 1990s.
“I was in fact allowed to work in the US,” Musk wrote on X, the platform he bought in 2022.
The Post says Musk has become a vociferous critic of the administration’s handling of immigration, decrying what he calls “open borders” and warning of the perils of illegal immigration. On his X feed he often laments the flood of “illegals” and baselessly alleges that it is part of a massive voter importation scheme.
President Biden on 26 October: “That wealthiest man in the world turned out to be [an] illegal worker here when he was here,” he said in Pittsburgh.
Biden added “I’m serious. He was supposed to be in school when he came on a student visa. He wasn’t in school. He was violating the law. He’s talking about all these illegals coming our way?”
In a 2005 email obtained by The Post, Musk wrote about his arrival in the United States in 1995.
He had applied to a Stanford University graduate program, which he did not end up attending, so he could stay in the country.
“I had no money for a lab and no legal right to stay in the country, so that seemed like a good way to solve both issues,” Musk wrote.
According to federal immigration regulations that were in effect in the mid-1990s, foreign students with a J-1 visa were allowed to work only in limited circumstances if they were in “good academic standing” and pursuing a “full course of study.”
Musk has previously said: “I was legally there, but I was meant to be doing student work. I was allowed to do work sort of supporting whatever."
Like many Irish students, I had a J-1 visa, but it was not for permanent residence.
Musk, a South African native, did not attend Stanford classes when he arrived in Palo Alto in late 1995; instead, he worked to build a company.
This means that he was in the US as an illegal alien.
