Elon Musk will sit next to Trump on election night - giving Republican access to owner of X and its hundreds of millions of users

Elon Musk will articulation Donald Trump for his election nighttime enactment successful Mar-a-Lago, continuing his assertive campaigning for the Republican candidate. 

The billionaire entrepreneur and proprietor of societal media level X has spent a whopping $119 cardinal connected his pro-Trump governmental enactment committee, America PAC, during this election.

He announced his enactment for the erstwhile president earlier this twelvemonth aft the July 13 assassination effort successful Pennsylvania, contempt saying successful 2022 that 'it's clip for Trump to bent up his chapeau and sail into the sunset'.

Under Musk's ownership, and with his determination to endorse Trump, galore are acrophobic that helium mightiness usage X and his power connected the level to extremity the scales successful favour of the Republicans.

Musk, whose tweets reportedly person peculiar amplification to his much than 200 cardinal followers and the site's half-a-billion monthly users, often posts astir his enactment for the erstwhile president.

On the level helium has asserted, without immoderate evidence, that Trump's run is heading for a 'crushing victory' implicit Harris. 

X has besides been heavy criticised for allowing the dispersed of misinformation connected the platform, including false claims of predetermination cheating by Democrats and phoney voting problems.

The Wall Street Journal claimed successful October that X served governmental contented to users who explicit nary involvement successful authorities and promotes pro-Trump implicit pro-Harris posts astatine a two-to-one ratio. 

In yet different arguable determination the Tesla and SpaceX CEO promised past period to springiness distant $1 cardinal regular until Election Day to radical successful plaything states.

According to the America PAC website, 16 people, including 4 successful Pennsylvania, person received the $1 cardinal awards. The winners were reportedly randomly selected among those who signed a petition pledging enactment for escaped code and weapon rights.

The connection was constricted to registered voters successful 1 of 7 states that volition apt determine the result of the Nov. 5 predetermination - Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The Justice Department warned Musk and his America PAC past period that the sweepstakes whitethorn interruption national law, which prohibits paying radical to registry to vote. 

He has besides appeared connected signifier with Trump astatine a run rally successful Pennsylvania and hosted a bid of municipality halls connected his ain successful the eastbound state, seen arsenic captious successful today's election. 

The ex-Federal Election Commission wide counsel Larry Noble told the Guardian: 'When Musk bought Twitter and rebranded it arsenic X, helium complained that it had been unfairly censoring blimpish viewpoints and helium wanted to marque it an uncensored marketplace of ideas.

'It present appears that Musk is utilizing his wealthiness and quality to scope hundreds of millions of followers with lies and debunked conspiracy theories astir however elections are being administered.

'Now that helium has afloat and openly embraced Trump, helium has joined Trump and his different minions successful spreading the assertion that the lone mode Trump tin suffer the upcoming predetermination is if determination is wide fraud. Of course, they are already claiming, without credible evidence, that predetermination fraud is already taking place.'