{"id":15519,"date":"2024-08-13T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/off-the-scale-ignorance-how-musk-trump-interview-on-x-played-out-on-social-media\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:37:27","slug":"off-the-scale-ignorance-how-musk-trump-interview-on-x-played-out-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/off-the-scale-ignorance-how-musk-trump-interview-on-x-played-out-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Off-the-scale ignorance\u2019: how Musk-Trump interview on X played out on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started poorly with a 45-minute delay and rolling technical issues \u2013 and was discussed on other platforms   <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2024\/aug\/13\/harris-trump-musk-interview-election-updates\">US politics \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk has been trying to entice Donald Trump back to X ever since he bought the site (formerly Twitter) in 2022. Until now, Trump has been content to rely on his own social network, Truth Social, to get the word out to his fans and followers, even after his one-time permanent Twitter\/X ban was lifted.<\/p>\n<p>But as the US election nears, and Musk\u2019s support of Trump becomes more vocal, Trump has returned, making a flurry of posts on X over the course of Monday and ending with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/trump-elon-musk-interview-key-takeaways\">a live conversation with Musk<\/a> over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/13\/elon-musk-donald-trump-x-interview-delay\">a meandering three hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/13\/musk-trump-interview-x-social-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/dbea6a7091f72b5f1c80f7699bf0cc9a1180ce63\/0_354_3648_2189\/master\/3648.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5ed37afef874c156daf3607504ae5322\" title=\"\u2018Off-the-scale ignorance\u2019: how Musk-Trump interview on X played out on social media\" \/>It started poorly with a 45-minute delay and rolling technical issues \u2013 and was discussed on other platforms<br \/>\nUS politics \u2013 live<br \/>\nElon Musk has been trying to entice Donald Trump back to X ever since he bought the site (formerly Twitter) in 2022. Until now, Trump has been content to rely on his own social network, Truth Social, to get the word out to his fans and followers, even after his one-time permanent Twitter\/X ban was lifted.<br \/>\nBut as the US election nears, and Musk\u2019s support of Trump becomes more vocal, Trump has returned, making a flurry of posts on X over the course of Monday and ending with a live conversation with Musk over a meandering three hours. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started poorly with a 45-minute delay and rolling technical issues \u2013 and was discussed on other platforms US politics \u2013 live Elon Musk has been trying to entice Donald Trump back to X ever since he bought the site (formerly Twitter) in 2022. Until now, Trump has been content to rely on his own &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/off-the-scale-ignorance-how-musk-trump-interview-on-x-played-out-on-social-media\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Off-the-scale ignorance\u2019: how Musk-Trump interview on X played out on social media<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}