Left-leaning social media customers are taking to Meta’s “Twitter killer” social media app Threads and posting conspiracy theories alleging that President-elect Donald Trump was declared the winner of a contest that was rife with fraud.
One conspiracy principle that has been gaining foreign money on the left alleges that distinguished Trump backer Elon Musk has utilized his Starlink web satellites to hack into voting machines and alter the outcomes.
“Are you f*ing kidding me?!?!?! Someone who’s openly campaining [sic] for one of the presidential parties is delivering the internet connection to voting machines and say ‘he can hack EVERYTHING’ and this gives no reason for concern?!??!” wrote one consumer on Threads.
A professional-Harris poster on Threads wrote: “Multiple sources reveal that Starlink was involved in tabulating the votes. Starlink. Owned and controlled by Elon Musk. Who worked for the Trump campaign. Hello? Anyone?”
“I like how no one from the press is talking about how Elon Musk just rigged the election,” a consumer underneath the deal with alex.nick.jungle posted.
One other Threads consumer wrote: “Yooooo. Evidence of WIDESPREAD voter fraud & votes being thrown into the trash/woods and mysteriously going missing and being uncounted. This s–t is about to get crazy.”
One Threads commenter famous the discrepancy between the elections leads to North Carolina, the place a Democrat, Josh Stein, received the governor’s race by greater than 800,000 votes whereas Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris within the state by fewer than 200,000 votes.
The North Carolina races for lieutenant governor, legal professional basic and secretary of state have been all received by Democrats.
The success of Democrats in down-ballot races within the Tar-Heel State regardless of Trump’s victory there has fueled conspiracy theories on-line.
“Trump’s margin in NC is based ENTIRELY on under-votes,” one Threads consumer wrote. “This makes absolutely NO SENSE!”
One other Threads consumer couldn’t fathom that Trump handily received Iowa regardless of a last-minute ballot by revered researcher Ann Selzer, which discovered Harris forward within the state by three factors.
“Ann seltzer [sic], the gold standard for poll watchers said Kamala was ahead in Iowa by 3points, and she loses it by 13? Odd things everywhere were happening,” wrote the Threads consumer.
Taylor Lorenz, the previous Washington Put up tech columnist, reported in her Substack e-newsletter that Threads customers have been broadly sharing a submit by somebody named “Stephen Spoonamore,” a reputed tech knowledgeable who glided by the moniker “liberal Q.”
Based on the broadly shared submit, a “full blown #fascist takeover is underway” after Trump supporters managed to “hack the tabulation machines.”
“Be aware these people are sociopaths who will kill you, they have done so to others, so act accordingly,” the submit from “Spoonamore” warned.
The Put up has sought remark from Threads’ father or mother firm Meta.
Threads, which was launched in July of final yr, has amassed a base of 275 million month-to-month customers, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated final month.
The consumer base is 175% greater than the 100 million customers that the corporate reported a yr in the past. Zuckerberg advised traders final month that Threads is signing up greater than 1 million customers per day.
Meta rolled out Threads to compete with X, Musk’s social media platform which has an estimated 318 million month-to-month customers, based on market intelligence agency Sensor Tower.
