MSNBC political contributor Jason Johnson slammed conspiracy theories spread online by supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris claiming the vote count was fraudulent because Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet satellites manipulated the machines to give the election to President-elect Donald Trump. Trump.
Johnson appeared on Joy Reid’s “The ReidOut” on Monday to discuss the conspiracy theories being spread on various social media platforms such as X, Bluesky and TikTok.
Johnson compared the phenomenon to the “election denial” that was perpetuated by President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters in 2020.
His comments were reported by Mediaite.
Johnson said that two weeks after the election, “conspiracies about the results are still rampant, except this time we’re seeing it on the other side of the aisle, with some on the left questioning the validity of the results.”
Johnson referred to the theory that Musk’s satellite internet provider, Starlink, hacked into the vote tabulation machines and altered the count to favor Trump.
“Right now, there’s no evidence that any of this is true,” Johnson said.
“Not to mention, the voting machines are not connected to the Internet during the election process.”
Johnson said the false claims have “spread like wildfire on social media, garnering tens of millions of views on places like TikTok and X and Twitter, proving that no side of the political spectrum is immune to election disinformation.”
He said he was “personally inundated with concerned friends and relatives” asking him about theories involving Musk rigging the election.
Trump’s victory and Musk’s active role in helping the president-elect defeat Harris has prompted an influx of social media users to join rival apps like Bluesky and Threads. Musk owns X after buying the company formerly known as Twitter in 2022 for $44 billion.
Since Election Day, at least 1.25 million people have signed up to Bluesky, the decentralized platform founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Threads, the Meta-owned app that was created to rival X, has not said how many users have joined since earlier this month.
But Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Threads boasts more than 275 million monthly users — up from 150 million in April.
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