Elon Musk spends $277 million to back Trump and Republican candidates
Elon Musk was the largest donor in the 2024 election cycle, spending at least $277 million to back President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates.
Julia Ingram is a data journalist for CBS News Confirmed. Her coverage, based in data analysis and computation, focuses on misinformation and on AI and social media's role in the information ecosystem.
Julia previously worked at PBS FRONTLINE, where her work was a semifinalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
She graduated with a master's degree in data journalism from Columbia Journalism School and a bachelor's in English from Stanford University. She is based in New York City.
Elon Musk was the largest donor in the 2024 election cycle, spending at least $277 million to back President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates.
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