{"id":17091,"date":"2025-01-04T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T11:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/how-elon-musks-x-became-the-global-rights-supercharged-front-page\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T11:37:14","slug":"how-elon-musks-x-became-the-global-rights-supercharged-front-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/how-elon-musks-x-became-the-global-rights-supercharged-front-page\/","title":{"rendered":"How Elon Musk\u2019s X became the global right\u2019s supercharged front page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics \u2013 and in those of other countries<\/p>\n<p>As a business proposition, Elon Musk\u2019s ownership of X, formerly known as Twitter, has so far been a disaster: since he acquired X in late 2022, the social media company, according to one estimate, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/02\/business\/elon-musk-twitter-x-fidelity\/index.html\">lost<\/a> nearly 80% of its value.<\/p>\n<p>As a political proposition, however, Musk\u2019s purchase may turn out to be one of the shrewdest investments of all time. Every week, the platform seems to supercharge a news issue that comes to dominate conservative discourse \u2013 and often mainstream discourse, as well \u2013 with real political repercussions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/04\/elon-musk-x-trump-far-right\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/822c87019ee72cf98aa27a9fd638d9986db64840\/0_173_5184_3110\/master\/5184.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2df10c2df844ea0079039e74eae31cfc\" title=\"How Elon Musk\u2019s X became the global right\u2019s supercharged front page\" \/>Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics \u2013 and in those of other countries<br \/>\nAs a business proposition, Elon Musk\u2019s ownership of X, formerly known as Twitter, has so far been a disaster: since he acquired X in late 2022, the social media company, according to one estimate, has lost nearly 80% of its value.<br \/>\nAs a political proposition, however, Musk\u2019s purchase may turn out to be one of the shrewdest investments of all time. Every week, the platform seems to supercharge a news issue that comes to dominate conservative discourse \u2013 and often mainstream discourse, as well \u2013 with real political repercussions. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics \u2013 and in those of other countries As a business proposition, Elon Musk\u2019s ownership of X, formerly known as Twitter, has so far been a disaster: since he acquired X in late 2022, the social media company, according to one &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/how-elon-musks-x-became-the-global-rights-supercharged-front-page\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Elon Musk\u2019s X became the global right\u2019s supercharged front page<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17092,"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\/17091"}],"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=17091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}