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It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk

My vote is for: “with tar and feathers”

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Another acceptable answer is “with 12,500’ of ocean”.

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I actually think Zuck does want to kick Musk’s ass. At the same time I think Mark is going with it just to call Elon’s bluff.

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If I were Zuck, I’d be dragging this thing out as long as it takes. See how many excuses Musk can make before he finally admits (he won’t) defeat.

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Agreed. Either of the end results is a win for Zuck

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It wont happen because Musk would get his ass handed to him every single round. Zuck is fit and has martial arts background

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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.

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But then how will the media get the ad money generated from clicks?

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Yeah if he does something fine. If he says something, that’s worthless.

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It’s hard to ignore someone with that much capital…

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No, it’s really quite easy.

Shitty journalism and paparazzi make it hard to ignore people whose sole personality trait is “money”.

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Then let his actions and not his tweets speak.

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You don’t. Not everything he does and says is newsworthy. Those who are really interested follow him in socials anyway.

Stop reporting on what he wants you to, and instead report what he doesn’t.

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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.

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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…

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