New York Times spills more ink on Elon Musk, but Twitter's 'Chief Twit' will have last word
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The New York Times’ hit piece on Elon Musk landed the very day the Tesla founder became "Chief Twit."
The most flagrant tells that something is amiss is the use of excessive repetition. Ashley Rindsberg is an investigative journalist, novelist, and author of "The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’ Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History"
In its attack piece, the Times made a big, bombastic claim about the billionaire, casting Musk as "a new, chaotic actor on the stage of global politics." Surely, with such high stakes, the Times would bring only the most credible claims substantiated by excellent sourcing. Right?
Well, turns out, not so much. Aside from two think tank wonks no one has ever heard of, the Times brought in precisely two sources to back up the article. One is a digital rights activist who went on record about how other people who are not Elon Musk created phishing attacks related to Musk’s attempt to launch Starlink in Iran, where protestors are rising up against the despotic regime, which shut off the country’s Internet.