{"id":16107,"date":"2024-10-03T18:37:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/musks-millions-in-rightwing-gifts-began-earlier-than-previously-known-report\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:37:57","slug":"musks-millions-in-rightwing-gifts-began-earlier-than-previously-known-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/musks-millions-in-rightwing-gifts-began-earlier-than-previously-known-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s millions in rightwing gifts began earlier than previously known \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X owner has spent tens of millions to fund conservative causes including anti-immigrant and anti-transgender ads<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has given tens of millions of dollars to rightwing groups in recent years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/elon-musk-political-donations-stephen-miller-desantis-39464294\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported on Thursday, revealing his backing for Republican groups began earlier than was previously known.<\/p>\n<p>Musk endorsed Trump earlier this year and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/27\/technology\/elon-musk-x-posts.html\">a prolific booster<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/09\/10\/elon-musk-illegal-immigrant-voting-misinformation\/\">misinformation<\/a> in support of the president\u2019s re-election bid on X, the website he owns. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that Musk had said he planned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/15\/elon-musk-trump-super-pac\">donate $45m each month<\/a> to a Super Pac backing Trump (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/elon-musk-donald-trump-donations-denial-super-pac-america\">Musk has denied the report<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/oct\/03\/elon-musk-rightwing-political-donations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8d2629db556eb2ef59d0be47fade2d8f65f406e8\/0_113_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=62c3459108f333c3e52988c6b4f3b8a3\" title=\"Musk\u2019s millions in rightwing gifts began earlier than previously known \u2013 report\" \/>X owner has spent tens of millions to fund conservative causes including anti-immigrant and anti-transgender ads<br \/>\nElon Musk has given tens of millions of dollars to rightwing groups in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, revealing his backing for Republican groups began earlier than was previously known.<br \/>\nMusk endorsed Trump earlier this year and has been a prolific booster of misinformation in support of the president\u2019s re-election bid on X, the website he owns. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that Musk had said he planned to donate $45m each month to a Super Pac backing Trump (Musk has denied the report). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X owner has spent tens of millions to fund conservative causes including anti-immigrant and anti-transgender ads Elon Musk has given tens of millions of dollars to rightwing groups in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, revealing his backing for Republican groups began earlier than was previously known. Musk endorsed Trump earlier this &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/musks-millions-in-rightwing-gifts-began-earlier-than-previously-known-report\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musk\u2019s millions in rightwing gifts began earlier than previously known \u2013 report<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16108,"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\/16107"}],"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=16107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}