"I think there are a lot of folks who have been on Twitter and may have realized, Wait a minute, there seem to be a lot more Republicans in my feed especially since Elon Musk took over and, oh my goodness gracious, what a tremendous monumental shift on the regular news consumers on Twitter/X! You go back to 2021, the party ID margin. Democrats were 37 points more likely or 37 points more likely to be a Democrat on Twitter or X than a Republican."
"Now it's a 14-point lead for Republicans on Twitter/X. We're talking about a 51-point shift in the margin! And [CNN anchor John Berman] and I were talking about it just before. You can see it with your own eyes. This is polling reflecting what you're seeing in the social media real world, where all of a sudden, John, you just see a lot, a lot more Republicans in your feed."
A 2021 Pew Research Center poll showed 45% of Republicans used social media for news versus 52% of Democrats. By 2025 Republican social-media-for-news use rose to 55% while Democrats remained at 52%. On X/Twitter the partisan profile of regular news consumers flipped from a 37-point Democratic advantage in 2021 to a 14-point Republican advantage in 2025, a 51-point margin swing. The platform now displays noticeably more Republican accounts and content since Elon Musk's acquisition. Some Democrats migrated to Threads and Bluesky, but those platforms remain far less popular than X/Twitter.
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