Elon Musk Is Wrong About ‘Truth’ in the Media
He wants to rate the “core truth” of news articles. That’s an entirely wrong-headed way to think about how news works.
Perception is reality.
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Elon Musk, the entrepreneur, national treasure, and living, breathing argument for increased sub-Saharan African immigration into the U.S., has been having a tough month in the news media, and he took to Twitter on Wednesday to share some of his frustrations.
The name “Pravda” is clever (and it turns out Musk didn’t just come up with it while writing the tweet), and there is a certain circa-2004 appeal to the idea of a crowdsourced media-rating system. It’s a little hard in this less naive era to see how it could avoid being hijacked by ideologues or people slaving away in Eastern European digital sweatshops. But hey, maybe Elon’s the guy to figure it out! (In his spare time, you know, when he’s not busy trying to figure out how to keep Tesla Inc. from running out of cash.)