2024 election day scenes from Milwaukee's central count as absentee ballots are tallied

Bluesky gears up for Election Day as X goes pro-Trump As Election Day in the U.S. nears, social networking startup Bluesky, now flush with new capital, hopes to demonstrate that its platform can serve as a more trusted, fact-checked alternative to Elon Musk's X. While the latter is dominated by Musk's support for the Trump campaign, Bluesky tends to lean left, thanks to its influx of disgruntled former Twitter users who don't like the platform's new direction. Now, with the U.S. elections upon us, Bluesky is setting up for its biggest test yet: its ability to handle the potential misinformation that can mislead users during these critical national events, including any posts meant to disrupt the voting process or those using new technologies, like AI, to confuse the voting public. While X's other competitor, Meta's Threads app, has distanced itself from politics — even going so far as to no longer recommend users political content — Bluesky has capitalized on the demand for a real-time social network that prioritizes such discussions.