Tech news with a hefty dose of socioeconomics and politics. I literally get the same thing from my news communities. I just want tech discussion in isolation :'(
Whatever he says is meant to either feed his ego or his coffers. So just assume lie, exaggeration or straight lunacy. I don’t even know why anyone gives him 2m. Whatever he’s ever said about tech, he’s been either somewhat or totally out to lunch.
On Reddit I’ve found most of the billionaire news in tech subs is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.
Yes. Stop covering them unless they actually do something of importance to the public.
I could not care less about what dumb shit Musk said. To me it has no more weight than what a random person on a bus stop says.
Actually here’s the benchmark, if it’s something that wouldn’t be covered if it was said/done by a random man on the street, then don’t cover it if it’s said/done by musk.
I vote a fight will be faked like the one at the end of Running man. Loads of morons thought that car in “Space” was real. Why not just fake the fight.
i suggest you treat him like a hostile, manipulative entity, and assume that nothing comes out of that mouth straight.. imagine that everything he says is coming from Isengard.. it'll help you..
How about we start right now? Just don’t post anything related to him until it’s actually confirmed to be actually happening and not just him shitposting.
Part of the problem is news consumers, that was part of the point of the article. “News” outlets know they can just embed a musk X-eet, write a couple of paragraphs of context (or have AI do it), add the headline “Musk says ____” and boom an easy ten thousand clicks. The author argues these outlets should at least acknowledge prominently in their articles that Musk is a serial liar. He specifically calls out a few outlets over their coverage of Musks unilateral claim that the fight will be streamed on X without ever acknowledging that the claim was likely bullshit without Zucks verification. Just shitty clickbait journalism.
The fight is stupid and won’t happen. Even if it did happen, Mark and Musk are going to just meet together and engage in some steamy billionaire sex as a token to how many users they have messed with.
Here’s how to cover Musk, you do the same way with Trump - they both hate truths, so keep spreading truths about them.
they both hate truths, so keep spreading truths about them.
Yeah, it’s really working for Donald Trump, he’s not been trying to get into the news or been obnoxious or lied or anything like that since the truth was reported about him ;-)
The real way to cover Elon Musk is the way Trump should be covered but isn’t: just don’t. Don’t at all. If you feel you must, make a point of not covering what he’s done unless he’s 100% truthful and can back up any statements about the future he makes.
Is he lying about minorities on Twitter? Ignore him.
Is he claiming he’s going to release something in six months? Wait six months. You can report on it if it’s true and newsworthy?
In the mean time, why is the media still on Twitter? It’s like journalists covering Trump from cages inside of Trump rallies while he literally calls them terms Goebbels invented like “Lying Media”. Just… don’t turn up, don’t cover the rallies directly (oh sure, report some of the extremist rhetoric, but you don’t have to point a TV camera at him and allow every word he utters to be broadcast live to your audience), etc. And likewise, the media doesn’t need to be on Twitter, it’s not a place to “stay in touch” with the people who read your articles, or the people you report upon, you shouldn’t be there.
Will never happen though. Not my quote but fairly accurate: it’s called “the media” because it’s mediocre.
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