As election night projections looked increasingly favorable for Donald Trump, the tech titan who perhaps did more than anyone to shift Silicon Valley rightward, began taking his victory laps, first and foremost by replaying all his most ignominious hits.

Record usage of this platform!! pic.twitter.com/SfWyi9kBWd

As ever, the “record usage of this platform” boasts should be taken with a grain of salt, but X was undoubtedly a well-trafficked feed of information, both reliable and seriously unreliable, this election cycle. Not that Musk’s buddies see it that way. Rather, for hedge fund owner Bill Ackman, it’s vindication that X—where Ackman repeatedly pushed disinformation around network news, vaccines, and plagiarism—is the epitome of accuracy.

If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth.

Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that… https://t.co/oT7TgfNaQ5

Musk had a lot riding on this election. He lost more........

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