Purely coincidental, Reuters won a Pulitzer Prize for this investigation into Elon Musk: www.reuters.com/investigates... - ThreadSky

lawrencehurley.bsky.social • 9 days ago

Purely coincidental, Reuters won a Pulitzer Prize for this investigation into Elon Musk:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/musk-inc/

Reposted from Zack Beauchamp

At this point, there are only two options:

A) Elon is so dishonest that he is willing to peddle obvious lies to score PR points

B) Elon really is this stupid

Comments

jessenash.bsky.social•9 days ago

I mean, he’s going to get some things wrong… but he will publicly correct himself and put it all on the website

thevargest.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thomson Reuters also just won a major court decision (literally two days ago) against the fair use defense deployed by generative AI companies in copyright cases

Musk has his garbage Grok AI and is trying to buy OpenAI, which uses the fair use defense

https://www.wired.com/story/thomson-reuters-ai-copyright-lawsuit/

danhawthorne.bsky.social•9 days ago

He's a genius, he is.

fmmh.bsky.social•9 days ago

Musk is a genius in picking up money. For the rest he is a rather childish science fiction lover. A cold simpleton, without any hart or human empathy.

grizzlydad.bsky.social•9 days ago

🥰

steph1873.bsky.social•9 days ago

Both things can be true at the same time.

drjlhazelton.bsky.social•9 days ago

He's been peddling obvious lies for some time.

arthurfrayne.bsky.social•9 days ago

🤔

satiricalplanet.bsky.social•9 days ago

A late shoutout to Stephen Hawking and democracy, one explored the cosmos, the other collapsed under its own gravity.

https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/usa-edition-of-the-dead-democracy

astill73.bsky.social•9 days ago

📌

trizlo.bsky.social•9 days ago

ELON KNOWS THE CULT IS STUPID AND WILL JUST REPEAT WHATEVER HE SAYS. IT DOES NOT MATTER ONE FUCKING BIT IF HE IS WRONG OR LYING. THE CULT DOES NOT CARE.

arkenor.bsky.social•9 days ago

I would hope that Reuters can afford to sue Musk for defamation.

brendaweese.bsky.social•9 days ago

You MUST understand that Elon Musk is a Narcissistic Psychopath, every bit the same kind of extremely dangerous pathological personality as the Felon TraitorTrump!

gbalbona.bsky.social•9 days ago

Or Both.

bettybythebeech.bsky.social•8 days ago

Should we start asking ourselves who Musk is working for if it is not the US??

uhb0v.bsky.social•9 days ago

For a billionaire, Musk is quite stupid.

kv64.bsky.social•9 days ago

I’ll take an A and B for two points Alex……

matthew-tilley.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is what happens when one hires nineteen year-olds to perform the equivalent of forensic accounting.

Difficult to fathom how Musk is at the helm of major corporations. Regardless of whether someone provided bad information, he reasonably knows better.

Flat-out dishonesty and immaturity...

ciacracksalesman.bsky.social•9 days ago

Being born with a silver spoon in your mouth is a fantastic way to fail upwards. Elon never needed to be smart or qualified, people just wanted his money he’s always had.

matthew-tilley.bsky.social•9 days ago

It would be hilarious if he tweeted out bad information, but I am really leaning toward deliberate dishonesty on this one. Even he knows that nobody working on surreptitious activities creates an invoice for a "misinformation campaign" when it would be subject to the Freedom of Information Act...

ciacracksalesman.bsky.social•9 days ago

The current strategy seems to really just be dishonesty and disregard. Any challenge of the dishonesty or actions just lead to blatant disregard of established systems. Prime example right now being judicial challenges to executive orders are met with “Yeah, but what are you gonna do about it?”

matthew-tilley.bsky.social•9 days ago

If they don't start holding parties in contempt and issuing significant sanctions, that will be the end of our entire legal system. Also not holding my breath; they will keep pushing this until we end up in a scenario where our people are forced into taking direct action to defend our country.

lastdaysotheweimar.bsky.social•9 days ago

That’s the point. They want to destroy all remaining public confidence in government, loot it, create a monstrously oppressive state that combines extremely repressive social conservatism, propaganda overload, massive self dealing, privatization of public goods, and enforced loyalty to the dictator.

matthew-tilley.bsky.social•9 days ago

Indeed, and very well said. We are literally looking at the equivalent of a North Korean society. The only means of preventing it entails: 1) full participation from our entire populous, and, 2) getting a large percentage thereof to realize they have been voting against their own self interests.

sparky2024.bsky.social•9 days ago

The proper thing to do is sue Elon

1836republic.bsky.social•9 days ago

At this point what difference does it make whether 1 or the other or both are true?

The US is in a post truth era where impunity & immunity reign & bribery is nearly totally gutted (see SCOTUS), fraud in the inducement is prevalent & Republicans are lacking morals & the gonads to stop it, period

redtriage.bsky.social•9 days ago

pgxen.bsky.social•9 days ago

I worked for a University that subscribed to Reuters. They provide copies of news articles that mention your company's or institution's name and other topics you choose from news outlets worldwide. This was years ago, so I'm sure it's links now. But I bet Tesla subscribes. He know what this is.

kalifissure.bsky.social•9 days ago

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UNwoLhh2OLZqYLOGVzKqa

sobiesk2.bsky.social•9 days ago

Arguing with Elon on his own platform is like showing up to a row boat race without oars. Why bother? If you make points valid enough that they bother him, he will just suspend the account.

jameswsthomson.com•9 days ago

Reuters also broke the news about his plans to ditch the low-price model (cratering his stock), which he denied, saying they were lying, then later confirmed.

liberaloifveteran.bsky.social•9 days ago

You can tell Musk has never read an actual government contract.

lakeboy.bsky.social•9 days ago

I vote stupid.

dlsp2.bsky.social•9 days ago

Wow! Thank you.

dclayworth.bsky.social•9 days ago

"Elon is so dishonest that he is willing to peddle obvious lies to score PR points" Since Trump has been doing that for years, why are we surprised?

holliwinters57.bsky.social•9 days ago

Which is why he lies about what it really is.

plaintanjane.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thanks and FYI, @drewharwell.com is on bluesky posting about this himself. Here’s *his* thread about it.

https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3li32yxcfx226