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Elon Musk Is an Information Polluter

The Twitter/X owner poses as a media critic, but he abuses his massive platform to spread misinformation and blatant lies
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Elon Musk says ABC News “lost a lot of credibility” in the Trump-Harris debate, but Musk loses credibility whenever he posts on his site. After claiming his goal was to expand free speech when he bought Twitter two years ago, this dangerous man has used his site—and his own 199 million followers—to spread extremist lies and prop up Donald Trump’s candidacy. What a misfortune for democracy.

This new “Media Misses” video addresses these issues in conversation with Mark Jacob, author of the excellent “Stop the Presses” newsletter.

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Audio recordings of regular posts, narrated by author and journalist Steven Beschloss, focused on democracy, justice, politics and society.