Billionaire ElonMusk blasted the media’s intelligence with a meme depicting three brains at different levels of enlightenment.
Musk seemed to slam critics’ “inaccurate, slanderous” reporting while praising the publishing of “factual, accurate news.”His tweet also called into question “publishing articles that use clickbait and out-of-context quotes.”In the weeks since Twitter announced Musk’s bid to purchase the social media platform, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has blasted media censorship and touted the need for free speech, drawing negative reviews and attacks from mostly left-leaning critics.
The article acknowledged Musk had nonwhite friends and avoided the apartheid movement but questioned whether Musk’s reasons for purchasing Twitter were influenced by his growing up during “the apartheid era [that] created all-white enclaves littered with anti-Black government propaganda and sheltered [him] from the atrocities of apartheid.”
“In South Africa, if you publicly opposed apartheid you went to jail,” Maye Musk tweeted, drawing a comparison to the war in Ukraine. “In Russia, if you publicly oppose the war, you go to jail. @nytimes are you going to blame children for decisions made by governments?”
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