Why Trump's Tucker Carlson interview isn't the 'most watched in history'

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Why Trump's Tucker Carlson interview isn't the 'most watched in history'
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Trump falsely claimed that his recent video interview with Carlson had more than 10 times the number of views than it actually had.

Trump touted the view count of Carlson's post containing the interview video last week on X, formerlyHowever, the metric only measures the number of people who may have seen Carlson's post—including those who may have just scrolled by the post—not the number who might have actually viewed the video.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, left, is shown in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 15, 2023. Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is pictured on June 27, 2023, in Concord, New Hampshire. Trump falsely claimed that his interview with Carlson last week was"the most watched" interview and video in"history.

Some versions of the app released after Musk added the post view count leave little room for doubt about the fact that the post count metric does not reflect video views, as they show the current post views of 262 million alongside the video view number of 21.7 million. This screen capture taken from a version of the Twitter app released in April shows that the video of former President Donald Trump's interview with Tucker Carlson had been viewed 21.7 million times as of Wednesday, with the post itself being viewed 262 million times.

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