Whoopi Goldberg claimed on Thursday’s episode of ABC’s The View that businessman Elon Musk is effectively acting as “the actual vice president.”
During the segment, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin raised concerns about the spread of misinformation and the growing polarization on social media platforms. She said, “There has to be fact-checking and actually verification of the things I share. I spend a lot of time on Instagram reels that I’m served up, things I get outraged about, and I know it’s not true and look it up. The Bluesky versus X, because a lot of people I follow on Twitter/X left to go to Bluesky, and we’re all going into our own echo chamber. We had this election that was tense, and the right will stay on X, and the left will be on Bluesky. How do we try to talk to each other?”
Goldberg responded by pointing out what she views as the driving force behind the exodus from certain platforms. “Unfortunately, I will have to say, the other side, I think, has driven people away because, you know, it’s not just discourse. It’s nasty name-calling and coming after your family. I’m going to do this to you, and I don’t think anyone should have to take that from anybody if they don’t have to. And I think a lot of Republicans who also are getting that because they have opinions that may differ from what is being said, they’re moving, as well, because, you know, I know why also because, you know, as I believe, Elon Musk is the actual vice president.”
She elaborated further, adding, “JD Vance, you know, he’s kind of an interim, but I believe that Musk, he’s the real actual vice president. He’s making decisions. He’s doing things. So I think, why doesn’t he have to give up X with everything he’s done?”

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