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This is what Elon Musk’s personal feed on X looks like.
He follows more than 1,000 people: right-wing influencers, conspiracy theorists, anti-transgender activists and dozens of his own superfans.
His feed represents a flattering alternate reality filled with boundless praise — for him, for Tesla, for X, for his politics.
And it mirrors his own deepening allegiances to the far-right.
DOGE: We’re told PBS/CPB/NPR only receive half a billion from the government but if you dig down a little deeper the real number is over a billion. Agencies across the government routinely provide hundreds of additional grants to our state-funded media apparatus.
I’m no scientist but I did see that movie Armageddon and I don’t think pumping mice full of transgender hormones is going to stop an asteroid
European women and children continue to be victims of illegal immigration. We must stop this.
Elon Musk first risked his life by acquiring Twitter. In the past 1 year he has narrowly escaped two attacks. Now he’s risking his life again by standing up against the corruption. He’s doing all of this for the people of America. If you still hate him think TWICE!
There it is folks!
This was the plan all along.
Looking for any excuse to inject our food with mRNA experimental vaccines.
President Trump does a flyover on Air Force One over Daytona 500 to loud cheers 🔥
Feminism is not equality for women.
TRUMP: “Our country is doing well again. We have spirit all over the world there’s spirit again. We brought it back and it’s been less than 4 weeks. So you’ll see what we do in a little period of time. It’s going to only get better.”
Elon Musk is making the biggest impact to help humanity and save America from bankruptcy. Do you support him? We do.
Presidents’ Day vibes are strong! 🇺🇸Today we honor the leaders who shaped our nation—but let’s be real this one’s for YOU President TRUMP. Thank you for risking it all to Save America!
@sina39184138 @elonmusk It is impossible to please everyone. There will always be those who are dissatisfied. Therefore Elon simply does what he considers necessary and doesn't try to please all people. For this millions love him
Wow - I woke up and noticed Elon Musk is now following me 🤯
look at this map now please explain to me why the west is obsessed with importing people from the worst red zones. why deliberately bring in cultures where rape is normalized? if they want to live like that in their own countries fine but why bring it to civilized nations?
@mtgreenee Celebrating the GOAT back in the White House! LFG!
Leftists will always resort to violence in order to get their way
Elon inspecting Fort Knox
Massive declassification is the key to deep state reform. The public must see the full record—corruption waste and criminality—inside agencies like USAID FBI DOJ CIA DHS HHS NIH FDA and CDC.
This means exposing decades of crony capitalism criminal activity and covert operations that have destabilized both the U.S. and the world. (Show more)
Falcon 9 lands off the coast of The Bahamas for the first time! Welcome to space @VisitTheBahamas!
Cybertruck earns 5-Star Overall Safety Rating from NHTSA
Landing off the coast of The Bahamas will also provide greater winter weather recovery options helping Falcon continue to provide rapid and reliable service for our customers
This new landing location allows Falcon 9 to maximize its performance by launching into an optimal southeast trajectory from our launch sites in Florida to carry additional satellites to orbit and also allows us to launch human spaceflight missions such as Fram2 to polar orbits
Trump: Millions of Social Security Payments Going to People Over 120 Years Old!
- Ages 120-129: 3.47 million
- Ages 130-139: 3.94 million
- Ages 140-149: 3.54 million
- Ages 150-159: 1.35 million
A boy pretending to be a girl just won 1st place in the girl’s Maine State Class B Championship. Before he pretended to be a girl he was 5th place on the boy’s team. He’s a cheater trying to invade women’s spaces to get ahead
MORE TRANS VIOLENCE?!
Alan Abad also known as Alena/Alina Abad was just charged for allegedly murdering two women in NY. According to those who knew Abad Abad reportedly identified as a female when attending West Westwood Regional High School in NJ. (Show more)
Note: These posts were selected by The New York Times and are shown in chronological order. Some posts were truncated for length. Source: X
In Mr. Musk’s own telling, his political views were shaped by X.
In a recent interview with Fox News, Mr. Musk said that videos circulating on X years ago depicting crowds of migrants sparked his fascination with right-wing politics and stronger border protections.
“I’ve seen videos of people streaming across the border on Twitter, now X,” he said, citing politicized and sometimes misleading videos that have spread online about migrants. “And I was like, is this real?”
It was a stark example of the power X has to politicize its own users — including the world’s richest man — using hyperpartisan opinions and far-right media.
To better understand how the information that Mr. Musk consumes on X could shape his worldview, The New York Times recreated a version of Mr. Musk’s personal feed by opening a new account on X and following the same 1,109 users that he follows. We then analyzed more than 175,000 posts from the accounts that he follows, using a service that collects data from X.
Though there is no guarantee that Mr. Musk saw all of the posts captured by The New York Times, the accounts that he follows — including world leaders and business tycoons alongside conspiracy theorists and far-right influencers — reveal the voices that Mr. Musk appears to value. (This “Following” feed is different from the main “For You” feed, which includes posts from those he follows alongside others selected by X’s algorithm.)
The resulting feed, shown in this article as a selection of posts curated from the much larger set, revealed ample praise for Mr. Musk and his various priorities, mixed with a torrent of right-wing outrage over progressive politics. It highlights the ways that social networks can create information bubbles. X declined to comment.
Step, once again, into a version of Mr. Musk’s personal X feed below.
Among the most popular topics on Mr. Musk’s feed on X? Elon Musk himself.
He follows dozens of superfans who post near-constant praise for him and his companies.
Many other users devote time to praising the executive, too — between posts about politics, memes or culture wars.
🚨BREAKING: Do you support Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency auditing the ENTIRE federal government? YES or NO?
Today Bernie Sanders and fellow Democrats can’t stop talking about Elon Musk not paying taxes
Here’s the reality
Elon Musk “I'm the largest individual taxpayer in history I paid $10 billion in tax. Over $10 billion in tax — I was happy to pay the taxes. I don't mind.”
Pretty amazing how so many people (including some of you) moralize about Elon Musk’s personal life as if you’re better than him. Trust me you’re irrelevant and no one will remember you much less care about your indignation over how he lives his life.
I support Elon Musk
Day #68
Little 𝕏 with Elon Musk wherever he goes
Why is Elon Musk hated by the democrats?
He’s exposing their fraud. He will fight for America and remove waste/fraud.
Fake news. Trump and Elon Musk are showing high approval. Legacy media can’t spin the truth.
Russian President Putin compares Elon Musk to Sergei Korolev says people like him don’t appear often.
ELON MUSK: Those who oppose proof of citizenship for voting are traitors to America.
Everyone: Don't do that!
Elon Musk:
Elon Musk has taken first place in Path of Exile 2’s “Dawn of the Hunt” league
“The thing that matters long term is to have a self-sustaining city on Mars to make life multiplanetary.”— Elon Musk
Richard Dawkins on Elon Musk…
DOGE: Norm Eisen was for the elimination of fraud waste and abuse before he sued President Trump and Elon Musk to stop them from eliminating fraud waste and abuse. h/t @listen_2learn
You guys have no idea how hard people have been working to destroy Tesla long before Elon got political. How hard they go after even supporters of the company.
President Trump Elon Musk and Lil X having a meeting in the Oval Office and Lil X is totally locked in! Lil X is like Deport deport deport! 😂
DEI is a Civil Rights Act violation.
-Elon Musk
Note: These posts were selected by The New York Times and are shown in chronological order. Source: X
Those voices are mostly right-wing: Among tens of thousands of posts during a typical week, nearly half of them came from right-wing media figures, conservative influencers, Republican politicians or government leaders.
Those accounts included Chaya Raichik, whose X account, Libs of TikTok, has more than four million followers. Ms. Raichik’s appearances on Mr. Musk’s feed match her growing prominence offline: Her influence has exploded during the second Trump administration, and she has appeared at the White House multiple times this year, cementing her status as a top Trump advocate.
The accounts that Mr. Musk follows are also the ones he interacts with most on X, according to The Times’s analysis, giving them a valuable boost on the platform since Mr. Musk is the site’s most popular user, with more than 200 million followers.
That seems to give his followers the power to seize Mr. Musk's attention and could even redirect his policy goals. It is something they have noticed, with some users boasting they can catch Mr. Musk’s attention with a well-timed post or question.
“Pretty amazing when the owner of a platform personally tells you he is fixing your problem in real time,” Mario Nawfal, an influencer with more than two million followers, posted after Mr. Musk said he would fix an issue on X.
Who does Mr. Musk follow?
Mr. Musk follows more than 1,100 users on X, including hundreds of right-wing personalities.
Some of the ideas that circulated on Mr. Musk’s feed later emerged on the national stage.
President Trump had claimed at an address to Congress that federal funds were used for “making mice transgender” — a misleading description of various studies that tested the effect of hormone therapy on H.I.V. infections and other other side effects of the medication. The idea had gathered steam on X two months earlier, when a conservative-led animal advocacy group posted about it. The group’s account is followed by Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, and by Mr. Musk. Mr. Musk had personally shared one of the posts.
Later, as Tesla vehicles and dealerships were vandalized or attacked in a violent reaction to Mr. Musk, his feed was filled with calls to charge the attackers with “domestic terrorism,” giving the perpetrators 20-year prison sentences.
Mr. Musk agreed, calling attacks on Tesla’s vehicles “extreme domestic terrorism!!” Days later, Mr. Trump repeated the idea, saying that he would enjoy seeing “the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences.”
The content on Mr. Musk’s feed is a mirror of his own interests: As Mr. Musk’s role in the government’s cost-cuttings grew, so did praise for those plans on X.
The accounts he follows boast frequently about his supposed cuts, claiming billions in cost-savings that have often proven false or misleading under additional scrutiny.
Polling has shown that cutting government spending is popular, but that Mr. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are not. If Mr. Musk seemed oblivious to the criticism, his feed offers some reasons why: The users he follows praised his work and claimed Americans loved him for it.
🇺🇸 DOGE SLASHES $1.6B IN CONTRACTS—INCLUDES $120K FOR INDONESIA ENVIRONMENT SPECIALIST DOGE just pulled the plug on 57 federal contracts cutting $1.6 billion in projected spending and saving taxpayers $1.5 billion. Among the highlights: a $120000 USDA contract for an “Indonesia environmental policy and law enforcement specialist.”
Source: @DOGE
Doge's saving from the federal government has exceeded $155000000000
Keep it up 😃
This is why I voted for Trump and @DOGE 🇺🇸Taxation without representation didn't go well for the out-of-touch elites the first time around either did it?
Former President Biden made his first public speech since leaving the White House where he made at jab at @DOGE's claims of dead people receiving Social Security benefits.
🚨DOGE BREAKING: DOGE has updated its website estimated savings are now $155 billion.
Congress needs to be DOGE'd
What Elon Musk and DOGE are doing will actually benefit Social Security. Legitimate people as a result of the work of DOGE will receive more Social Security not less. Don’t be misled by the media一they’re just pushing a scripted narrative.
🇺🇸 TEXAS TO LAUNCH ITS OWN DOGE — AND YES IT’S ELON-INSPIRED Everything’s bigger in Texas — including government efficiency. A new bill modeled after Trump and Elon’s federal DOGE initiative just passed both chambers of the Texas Legislature and is headed to Gov. Greg
DOGE: The fact that the Social Security Administration has 300 year olds on its rolls isn’t a punchline it is at the very heart of the problem. The Democrat’s decision to fight the elimination of waste fraud and abuse is baffling.
Congress is fighting tooth and nail to spend every dollar DOGE saves. We have the dream team for spending cuts — Elon Trump and a GOP Congress that spent decades promising lower spending. If they can’t cut spending we need to change the rules of the game. That could be a balanced budget amendment. Or it could be returning to gold backing the dollar.
DOGE now has a website where you can submit your suggestions for deregulation or any rules/policies that you find extremely burdensome for consideration.
.@doge is following the money Elon Musk
Is Clear profitable? Maybe DOGE should launch a corporate division
JUST IN: Roughly 2300 HUD employees have accepted the deferred resignation offer since January. HUD announced a second resignation offer on March 31 to employees who wish they had taken OPM's offer. Sec Turner and DOGE are eliminating waste shrinking government and making
ELON MUSK: The fraud is overwhelmingly on the left. These NGOs are almost all left wing NGOs that are being funded. They hate me because DOGE is being effective. This is the reason why they really want me to die.
🇺🇸 FEDS WANT TO PLANT MONITORS INSIDE NONPROFITS THAT TAKE TAXPAYER MONEY DOGE is trying to embed their own people inside nonprofits that receive federal grants — to monitor how the money’s being used in real time. First target? The Vera Institute — a major criminal justice
🚨BREAKING:Do think every member of Congress should be audited by DOGE?
The @DOGE review of @SocialSecurity is essential in improving the agency. An Inspector General report released while Biden was in office found that $72 billion in improper payments were made from fiscal years 2015 to 2022. If that doesn’t scream government inefficiency I don’t know what does.
Controversial defense program tied to DEI-laden contractor could be in crosshairs of DOGE: 'Poster child'
Obama Judge Extends Ban on Trump’s DOGE Team from Accessing Americans’ Social Security Data to Root Out Fraud
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Note: These posts were selected by The New York Times and are shown in chronological order. Source: X
After a right-wing news aggregator claimed, incorrectly, that DOGE had blocked a $52 million payment for the World Economic Forum, Mr. Musk replied: “True. You’re welcome.” In reality, ending the program had saved $7.8 million.
Those inaccuracies have not stopped Mr. Musk from recommending the DOGE account to others — he frequently promotes the accounts he follows to his own 219 million followers.
“Just follow @DOGE for details,” Mr. Musk wrote in February. “There is a firehouse of information.”
