> The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office, which can choose to bring criminal charges over violating the state law against election bribery. Prosecutors have 40 days to report back to the commission.
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-wisconsin-election-mill...
Journalism has gone wild these days. He's already been sued and won a couple times. An for what? Encouraging people just to vote (he did not say which way). It's going to backfire hard for all the ad spend by MTV, Meta, and Google who also spend lots of money to encourage certain demographics to vote.
> Encouraging people just to vote
And "Criminal Conspiracy" is just making plans with friends. Just because you can describe it in vague terms doesn't make it A-Okay.
> It's going to backfire hard for all the ad spend by MTV, Meta, and Google
It will not, because running ads is definitely not election bribery, whereas what Musk did likely is under Wisconsin law.
The one that often has trouble running it's events as businesses try to avoid serving them. And which has prominent members that the secret service considers definitely fascist.
Musk has gone a long way beyond simply being the standard rich person lobbying for their own interests, and has moved into actively promoting people that are trying to tear down liberal democracy.