Over the past few months, Elon Musk has used his latest acquisition X (formerly known as Twitter) mostly to campaign for Donald Trump’s third presidential bid. And he’s not only done so in the “traditional” way of endorsing Trump or donating to his campaign, Musk went much further then that.

In recent weeks, Musk has constantly been amplifying some of Trump’s main talking points – uncontrolled mass immigration, alleged importation of voters, crooked mainstream media, anti-wokeness – by retweeting, in many cases, unchecked reports to his 200 million followers and validating them by adding comments like “will look into this”, “worrying” or simply “wow”.

In a final push towards the November 5 election, Musk even promised to give away $1 million each day to registered voters who sign a petition supporting free speech and the right to bear arms – a stunt that many think is against the law or at least against the spirit of it. Federal law prohibits paying people to register to vote, and while Musk only requires people to sign a petition to be eligible for his million-dollar sweepstakes, they must be registered voters to do so.

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