Last update:November 18, 2024, 1:04 p.m. IST

When taking over the X platform, Musk insisted that “Twitter deserves the public’s trust and must be politically neutral.”

Elon Musk allegedly used X to promote Donald Trump’s election campaigns. (Photo credits:

Many users have reportedly turned their backs on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) since the results of the US presidential elections were announced earlier this month. Some claim that the reason for this mass abandonment is Elon Musk, who took control of the microblogging site earlier in April 2022. Those who recently left X were reportedly unhappy with Musk using the platform to promote political campaigns of newly elected President Donald Trump. . When the American businessman acquired X, he pledged to keep the site free of hate speech and politically neutral.

Musk reportedly broke his promise by showing his support for Trump through X posts before the election. He has also been seen attending several Republican Party rallies. Musk has also been accused of spreading misinformation on the social media platform to show Trump in a good light.

Angered by these alleged moves, hundreds of thousands of X users left the platform to join Bluesky, according to a Hindustan Times report. When taking over Platform »

The Tesla CEO even said: “Trump would be 82 years old at the end of his term, which is too old to be CEO of anything, let alone the United States of America. » Everything seems to have changed now. After Trump became the 47th US President, he included Musk among his leadership.

In the new government, Elon Musk will oversee the Department of Government Effectiveness. He was also pictured in Trump’s family photos as “Uncle Elon” before the election.

Given the friendship between the two Americans, experts suspect that Elon Musk may choose to merge X with Trump’s ‘Truth Social Premium’ – another US-based social media platform where Trump is a dominant shareholder .

Truth Social has made huge profits since Trump was elected president for the second time this year. With shares rising 35 percent, the company’s value would have reached $9 billion. Meanwhile, the value of Trump’s 114.75 million shares is currently estimated at more than $5 billion.