Left-leaning social media users are taking threads on Meta’s “Twitter killer” social media app and posting conspiracy theories that claim President-elect Donald Trump was declared the winner of a rigged contest.
A conspiracy theory gaining traction on the left claims that prominent Trump supporter Elon Musk used his Starlink internet satellites to hack voting machines and alter the results.
“Are you kidding me?!?!?! Someone who campaigns openly [sic] because one of the presidential parties is giving internet connectivity to voting machines and saying ‘he can hack ANYTHING’ and that’s no cause for concern?!??!” wrote a user on Threads.
A pro-Harris poster on Threads wrote: “Multiple sources reveal Starlink was involved in vote tabulation. Starlink. Owned and controlled by Elon Musk. Who worked for the Trump campaign. Hello? Anyone?”
“I love how no one in the press is talking about how Elon Musk just rigged the election,” posted a user under the handle alex.nick.jungle.
Another Threads user wrote: “Yoooo. Evidence of widespread voter fraud and votes thrown in trash/woods and mysteriously missing and uncounted. This st is about to go crazy.”
Similar conspiracy theories have appeared on Musk’s social media platform, X, as well as on TikTok.
“Raise your hand if you think Elon Musk’s Starlink was the ‘Little Secret’ to winning or stealing this election,” wrote one X user.
The One Threads commenter noted the discrepancy between North Carolina’s election results, where a Democrat, Josh Stein, won the governor’s race by more than 800,000 votes, while Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the state by less than 200,000 votes. .
North Carolina’s races for lieutenant governor, attorney general and secretary of state were all won by Democrats.
Democrats’ success in down-ballot races in the Tar-Heel State despite Trump’s victory there has fueled conspiracy theories online.
“Trump’s margin in NC is ENTIRELY based on downvotes,” one Threads user wrote. “This makes absolutely no sense!”
Another Threads user couldn’t fathom that Trump easily won Iowa despite a last-minute poll by respected researcher Ann Selzer that found Harris ahead in the state by three points.
“Ann Seltzer [sic]The gold standard for poll watchers said Kamala was ahead in Iowa by 3 points, and she loses it by 13? Weird things were happening all over the place,” Threads user writes.
Taylor Lorenz, the former Washington Post technology columnist, reported in her Substack newsletter that Threads users were widely sharing a post by someone named “Stephen Spoonamore,” a well-known tech expert who went by the name “liberal Q “.
According to the widely shared post, “a full #fascist takeover is underway” after Trump supporters managed to “hack tabulation machines.”
“Beware these people are sociopaths who will kill you, they have done this to others so act accordingly,” the post from Spoonamore warned.
“The suggestion that Threads is flooded or overwhelmed with this kind of content belies the reality,” a Meta spokesperson told The Post.
Meta uses independent fact checkers that analyze posts that are flagged by other users. Posts deemed to be fake will be assigned a rating.
The most severe ratings, which label content as “fake” or “altered”, are hit with the most dramatic distribution limits – ensuring that it is seen by as few people as possible.
Threads, which launched in July last year, has amassed a base of 275 million monthly users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month.
The user base is 175% larger than the 100 million users the company reported a year ago. Zuckerberg told investors last month that Threads is signing up more than 1 million users a day.
Meta launched Threads to compete with X, Musk’s social media platform, which has about 318 million monthly users, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
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