Elon Musk gained weight Twitter late Tuesday to express concern at allegedly being targeted by the mainstream media.
What happened: That Tesla Inc. TSLA The CEO shared a meme showing the media following him in cars.
“I’m trying to escape mainstream media,” was written above Musk’s hypothetical car. The various tactics the media appeared to use to harass him were marked on the cars that followed him. These included “half-truths”, “staged events”, “imbalanced reporting”, “fabrications” and “propaganda”, among others.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2022
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Musk’s tweet follows reports that have suggested it Billionaire spoke up Wladimir Putin before sharing a peace plan on Twitter to stop this Russia-Ukraine War.
Reports that Musk and Putin spoke were based on statements by Jan BremerFounder and President of Eurasia Group. According to Bremmer, Musk told him about the conversation with Putin and what happened between them.
Musk responded by suggesting that Bremmer was lying and that the media reports weren’t true.
Why it matters: This isn’t the first time Musk has criticized the mainstream media. In March he exclaimed Mainstream media as “crazy/dangerous” after an independent story shot at the British comedian Russell Brand for benefits from his “current controversy-mongering” youtube videos. The Tesla CEO had said at the time that he found the “groupthink” among the media troubling, adding that there should be disagreements.
In April, he tweeted that he had found Americas Lack of trust in mainstream media as a ‘real problem’.
In 2020, during a Hack Club AMA, Musk said that mainstream media is putting out “clickbaits” instead of quality journalism to chase ad dollars, and predicted that media would move toward citizen journalism in the future.
