Journalist Judd Legum plans to launch a publication called “Musk Watch” to cover tech billionaire Elon Musk, reports David Folkenflik of NPR.
Folkenflik reports, “One issue will be dedicated to a deep dive or scoops about Elon Musk, and a second aggregating the reporting of others to capture Musk’s actions and activities.
“He’s hired Caleb Ecarma, formerly a political reporter for Vanity Fair, and hopes to hire more to cover Musk, the chief of SpaceX and Tesla, owner of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), and now the head of DOGE, a new task force charged with advising Trump on how to radically reorder the federal government.
“‘I think that he has an unprecedented combination of wealth, of influence across major industries, and of political influence,’ Legum tells NPR. ‘We really don’t know what the implications of one person having so much influence over a breadth of different areas will be.'”
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