@caseynewton It is well past time. He’s been lying and getting free press for a decade. Auto-pilot? Fraud. Car launch dates? Lies. Everything to do with Twitter? Cruelty on top of lies. Too much of our media across the board simple amplifies messages without fact checking. It unfortunately generates revenue. It's incredibly frustrating. CNN giving tRump millions of $ of free air time is par for the course unfortunately.
Really well said, @caseynewton . And the connection to #Trump is 🎯. Both are extremely un-serious people, products of lifetimes of minimal consequences of their actions. And both are car accidents on the freeway that we, and the media, can't look away from.
I may have gotten this from your wonderful #hardfork podcast, but here's an incomplete collection of Musk's broken promises.
The parallels between Ego Musk and Trump are striking - barrage of media attention seeking lies and nonsense.
I joked about it but I am genuinely starting to believe Musk is eyeing off a run for president after realizing Twitter would provide the perfect platform for it
@MasterDim@caseynewton he's not born in the US though (unless he's wanting to be president of South Africa).
Governor maybe? If he became governor of some southern right-wing state he could basically turn it into his personal fiefdom and get round all those pesky employment and environment laws for his companies.
@danjac@caseynewton Ah good call - thanks Dan. 👍 You can certainly see the appeal of going into politics given what some of those in power have been getting away with in recent years …
@caseynewton media and media consumers need to be more sceptical of tech in general. Unchecked claims are how he and all these figures have got away with so much stock pumping and hype for so long. Just this week we have room temp super conductors, more fusion stories, MIT super capacitors, carbon capture etc etc. It's lazy parrot journalism.
@caseynewton Why stop with him? Apply this to all the “headliners” who receive similar endless coverage for the sole purpose of driving traffic (and therefore, advertiser dollars) to media sites.
Oh... that’s why it’ll never end. Thanks for trying, though.
@caseynewton It will be like MFA, that all information needs to be verified by multiple parties for authenticity. Could be a necessary business in the near future when we desperately need to make sure whatever machines spits out is trustworthy.
@caseynewton As you basically allude towards the end of your article, you could just have easily have just said: “After a weekend of whoppers about X, it’s time for a more sceptical approach to stories about Donald Trump’s social media posts.” Isn’t it less an issue with coverage of the either man’s posts as the media’s relationship with social media as whole? What’s your role when they already have a megaphone and a huge audience? Be skeptical and analyze or cover something else, surely.
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