CBS News’ David Becker — who is falsely billed as a nonpartisan election expert — accused former President Donald Trump and X CEO Elon Musk of spreading “election disinformation.” While his allegations are unfounded, left-wing corporate media has a long-standing practice of trotting out so-called “experts” to discredit and undermine their political rivals on any topic they deem to be politically inconvenient for Democrats ahead of the election.
Becker accused Musk of “pushing some really inflammatory claims when it comes to voting” that are meant to make Americans “doubt our elections.”
“We’re seeing more election disinformation for sure. It’s coming from Donald Trump. It’s coming from Elon Musk. It’s coming from, we know, foreign adversaries like Russia, and Iran, and North Korea and China,” Becker said, claiming all the aforementioned parties were working to create doubt about election processes and outcomes.
“So when you see information on social media in particular, that triggers something within you, that seems to make you angry about the other side, all of us, as sophisticated media consumers, should pause and say, what is — maybe that anger is the product they’re trying to create. Maybe they’re getting paid, or they’re benefiting from creating that anger in us.”
Musk waded into the conversation, calling Becker “a liar through and through.”
“The very definition of disinformation,” Musk said in a post on X.
Becker didn’t explicitly clarify what so-called “misinformation” Musk has allegedly spread, though in the recent past Becker has criticized Musk for questioning whether
