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Part 132: Was the 2024 Election Hacked? Dangerous Lawfare in Bizarre Times
Part 132: Was the 2024 Election Hacked? Dangerous Lawfare in Bizarre Times
By Zachary Ellison, Independent Journalist
I’ve tried to ignore this discussion; much like the Substack Nazis, the risk in going down the proverbial rabbit hole is that you will simply spread further misinformation. Despite this, across multiple platforms, seemingly left-wing conspiracy theories have been percolating. I write this as a whistleblower and journalist who for many months now has sought to deal with actual hacking, the LA Fed Tapes, with contingent criminal and civil case investigations. Now for starters, I think the Substack Nazis have all but won; if ever there was an American president who seemingly worshipped Adolf Hitler, it’s definitely Donald Trump. Don’t get me started, and yet, absent compelling evidence that Donald Trump and Elon Musk actively conspired to manipulate swing-state election outcomes as is being alleged, I’m not quite buying it. That’s not to say that law enforcement is always trustworthy either, and some people give whistleblowing a bad name versus simply spreading baseless rumors. So what’s the truth? Does it pass the test?
To be fair, at the core of this allegation are concerning activities. Elon Musk offering a “$1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes” should have been shutdown harder than the Federal Bureau of Investigation went after former Los Angeles County Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas for bribery and fraud. Plus, Elon Musk is now seemingly being rewarded with the creation of a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which promises to be just about anything but that, paired with Vivek Ramaswamy, an equally noxious figure. Moreover, conspiracy theories have spread popularly regarding Musk’s Starlink communications technology interfering with election results that are seemingly divorced from reality. The Rolling Stone article on this characterized this as "BlueAnon,” with journalist Miles Klee characterizing this in comparison to “QAnon,” writing: “And while certain clickbait accounts used Harris’ diminished turnout compared to Biden’s to suggest that Trump cheated this time around, right-wing misinformation peddlers used it to retroactively argue that 2020 must have been stolen from Trump.”
Link: https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-132-was-the-2024-election-hacked
By Zachary Ellison, Independent Journalist
I’ve tried to ignore this discussion; much like the Substack Nazis, the risk in going down the proverbial rabbit hole is that you will simply spread further misinformation. Despite this, across multiple platforms, seemingly left-wing conspiracy theories have been percolating. I write this as a whistleblower and journalist who for many months now has sought to deal with actual hacking, the LA Fed Tapes, with contingent criminal and civil case investigations. Now for starters, I think the Substack Nazis have all but won; if ever there was an American president who seemingly worshipped Adolf Hitler, it’s definitely Donald Trump. Don’t get me started, and yet, absent compelling evidence that Donald Trump and Elon Musk actively conspired to manipulate swing-state election outcomes as is being alleged, I’m not quite buying it. That’s not to say that law enforcement is always trustworthy either, and some people give whistleblowing a bad name versus simply spreading baseless rumors. So what’s the truth? Does it pass the test?
To be fair, at the core of this allegation are concerning activities. Elon Musk offering a “$1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes” should have been shutdown harder than the Federal Bureau of Investigation went after former Los Angeles County Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas for bribery and fraud. Plus, Elon Musk is now seemingly being rewarded with the creation of a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which promises to be just about anything but that, paired with Vivek Ramaswamy, an equally noxious figure. Moreover, conspiracy theories have spread popularly regarding Musk’s Starlink communications technology interfering with election results that are seemingly divorced from reality. The Rolling Stone article on this characterized this as "BlueAnon,” with journalist Miles Klee characterizing this in comparison to “QAnon,” writing: “And while certain clickbait accounts used Harris’ diminished turnout compared to Biden’s to suggest that Trump cheated this time around, right-wing misinformation peddlers used it to retroactively argue that 2020 must have been stolen from Trump.”
Link: https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-132-was-the-2024-election-hacked
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