Biden's message on July 21 was posted on X two minutes before it went up on Meta platforms such as Facebook and Threads. It's not clear if this was intentional, and the campaign did not immediately respond to a message for comment on Monday. — AFP
A week after Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president, US President Joe Biden's team used Musk's social media platform X – in addition to more neutral spaces such as Facebook and Instagram – to announce he is ending his reelection campaign.
It's a testament to how ingrained the platform has become among the power players of the political and media world, as well as users looking for news and live updates of major events. While Meta's Facebook and Instagram, along with TikTok, boast far more users, X users say keeping up with the news is not the reason they use those platforms, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. X is the exception: most of the site's users say following the news is a reason they use it and about half say they regularly get their news from there.
