Elon is squarely calling out media behavior and says he is going to create a website to respond (personally, really hope he means it, at least means encouraging someone to run with the idea similar to his approach to getting hyperloop realized),
"Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …"
about a dozen tweets on this already, too many to post.
this was a gem in response to someone working in the media predictably labeling these tweets as Trumpian,
"Thought you’d say that. Anytime anyone criticizes the media, the media shrieks “You’re just like Trump!” Why do you think he got elected in the first place? Because no ones believes you any more. You lost your credibility a long time ago."
my two cents, for years the majority of the media has already been hitting Elon like a pinata, saying you cannot trust what Elon/Tesla says, spinning nearly everything negatively, and saying Elon's unhinged and needs to grow up. yes, they will say all that even more now, but, all of those things are already ratcheted up so highly, seems worth it to call it out... if Elon turns it into half the people thinking Tesla/Elon are full of #$%, and half think media is full of #$%, probably better than current circumstances. if a website like this is really launched in a way that cannot be gamed, Tesla will benefit far more, so, many things might really benefit a great deal.
"Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …"
about a dozen tweets on this already, too many to post.
this was a gem in response to someone working in the media predictably labeling these tweets as Trumpian,
"Thought you’d say that. Anytime anyone criticizes the media, the media shrieks “You’re just like Trump!” Why do you think he got elected in the first place? Because no ones believes you any more. You lost your credibility a long time ago."
my two cents, for years the majority of the media has already been hitting Elon like a pinata, saying you cannot trust what Elon/Tesla says, spinning nearly everything negatively, and saying Elon's unhinged and needs to grow up. yes, they will say all that even more now, but, all of those things are already ratcheted up so highly, seems worth it to call it out... if Elon turns it into half the people thinking Tesla/Elon are full of #$%, and half think media is full of #$%, probably better than current circumstances. if a website like this is really launched in a way that cannot be gamed, Tesla will benefit far more, so, many things might really benefit a great deal.
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