# New Insights Spotlight X’s Shift to the Proper Beneath Elon Musk

Hey, bear in mind again when Elon Musk first bought Twitter, how he talked about night the stability of political speech, and decreasing the over-influence of Democrat leaning choices in social media apps?

Yeah, it looks as if that hasn’t actually labored out, with a brand new survey from Pew Analysis displaying that Democrat voters now really feel just like the app is leaning means too far in direction of the Republican facet, which has impacted their expertise utilizing the app.

Which isn’t, like, stunning in any means, however it’s attention-grabbing to see the historic shift in perceptions on this entrance.

As you’ll be able to see on this graph, 51% of Republican X customers surveyed describe their expertise within the app as constructive, versus simply 20% of Democratic customers.

Democrat voters on X are additionally extra more likely to say their expertise within the app has been unfavorable, underlining simply how far Elon has swung the pendulum in direction of the precise.

Certainly, 31% of X customers consider that the platform now helps conservative views over liberal views.

Which, once more, is not any shock, with Elon himself being the platform’s most adopted consumer, and commonly amplifying Republican speaking factors, particularly within the lead-up to final yr’s election.

Elon has even taken credit score for getting Trump elected, noting, simply as we speak, that:

“With out me, Trump would have misplaced the election, Dems would management the Home and the Republicans can be 51-49 within the Senate.”

So yeah, no surprises on this new analysis, however taking a look at Pew’s previous survey information on the identical level, it’s attention-grabbing to notice the platform’s perceptive shift.

As you’ll be able to see, there’s been an enormous swing in opinion in each class regarding how X is perceived by folks from differing political views, which reveals that X is clearly leaning additional in direction of the precise.

Is {that a} good factor for X normally?

No matter your view on media and/or social media leanings, based mostly on previous examples, this doesn’t appear to be an excessively constructive shift, with different right-leaning social platforms struggling to realize main traction, and turn into actual gamers within the broader social media panorama.

Proper-wing centered apps like Parler and Reality Social have solely managed to carry onto area of interest audiences, with most individuals preferring to hitch the gang of the extra standard social apps, the place they will share their views with a broader viewers.

And proof does recommend that X can be shedding viewers share due to this shift to the precise, which may ultimately derail the app totally, although it has seemingly held onto a good portion of its viewers.

Routine behaviors and established communities have ensured that X maintains a market maintain, however it’s attention-grabbing to notice the importance of the shift in direction of the precise, and the way that’s impacting consumer expertise.

Possibly that’ll shift once more, with Elon now opposing Trump’s newest measures.