On Wednesday night, history was made. With the election of Donald Trump, the United States of America not only got a new Republican President, but this will also be a day that will be known as a turning point when, for the first time, people started to trust independent media on social networks more than the left-wing political-media industrial complex of the mainstream media. People will follow the news differently from now on. The news is back in the hands of the people.
Once again, we have seen that the mainstream media made a big mistake in their polls when they measured political support for Vice-President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump. Meanwhile, a number of political analysts on the social network X have correctly concluded that the polls are wrong, and that Trump has far more support than they measured. With this election, the social network X has become the most important and reliable media outlet we have. Not because every post is true, but because the network has a popular filter that filters true information from false. In this way, the media has lost its primacy over the course of discourse in society.
Throughout the election campaign, we have seen heavily biased reporting in favour of Kamala Harris, who, in the only debate held between the two candidates, was given the questions to be asked in advance, according to the testimony of sources from the ABC News media company. In the last few months, we have seen the media checking every statement made by Trump and none by Harris. We even saw how the mainstream media participated in the White House’s lie when President Joe Biden described Trump supporters as rubbish. At that time, the media and the White House even joined forces in their deception and claimed that the ‘garbage’ remark that Biden used in his speech was aimed only at a single Trump supporter, not all of them. The people saw through the lies, but nobody believed that Trump would actually win.
X was right, the traditional media were wrong – again
“Half the country has believed that X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, and other mainstream media for their news. And they did. If, however, you have been active on X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the mainstream media,” wrote billionaire Bill Ackman, a former Democratic supporter who finally switched sides after the pro-Hamas protests at Harvard.
“Citizen journalists with their phone cameras in hand captured the real Kamala, forcing her to defend her record and her plans in more media appearances. It did not go well, and the public demanded to learn more, so Kamala Harris had to risk more unscripted media,” Ackman wrote on X, pointing to the case of Harris’ complete doom loop during the 60 Minutes interview on the Democrat-friendly CBS television network, where she fumbled and said a bunch of nonsense, and then CBS tried to edit the interview to make it sound coherent, but citizen journalists at X quickly caught on and exposed the fraud and demanded a transcript of the interview in its entirety.
A victory for free journalism
This victory, therefore, is not just a Trump victory. Nor is it a victory for X as the only free social media. It is a victory for the free people and free journalism who use X. We can be almost certain that the race would have been much closer if Musk had not “liberated” Twitter from its former far-left leadership. It should be noted that one of the main details that decided the last election was precisely the conspiracy between the media, left-wing politics and the FBI security-intelligence service, which banned the media from publishing the news about Biden’s son Hunter’s laptop – the FBI then used the made-up claims that the news was Russian sabotage as an excuse. In the end, it turned out not to be a made-up claim after all. But the polls showed that if it had not happened, Trump would probably have won.
44 billion dollars for free speech
So, X has become a key instrument of democracy in the most important country in the world. Let us remember how it all started – with an innocently humorous interaction on Twitter at the time, when a user called Dave Smith called on billionaire Elon Musk to buy the entire social network. Musk wrote, “I love Twitter” at the time, to which Smith replied: “You should buy it then.” And Musk simply responded with: “How much is it?”
A simple proposal. In the end, it changed the course of our civilisation. The people have regained their voice.
Mitja Iršič
