Bode writes, “There are some outlets that are obviously worse than others (Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes), but you’ll find it’s generally a very broad scourge across journalism; especially tech and business journalism. Here, for example, is a whole bunch of outlets parroting Musk’s recent claim he’d help pay TSA agent salaries:
None of these outlets could be bothered to even mention Musk’s extensive history of erratic behavior or making false promises, like the time he falsely claimed he’d ship hospitals ventilators during peak COVID, the time he claimed he’d single-handedly fixed Flint, Michigan’s water supply, or more recently when he claimed he’d cut $2 trillion in wasteful government spending.
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