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<\/div>Feeling Dumb<\/h2>
It's no secret that multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk spends an astonishing amount of time posting dubious political material on his social media echo chamber X-formerly-Twitter.<\/p>
During a late Sunday night session, Musk cosigned<\/a> a meme<\/a> that reads: \"If you ever feel dumb, just remember there are some people who still believe everything shown in [sic] news,\" resharing the image with a curt \"yup.\"<\/p> But it didn't take long for Musk to out himself as one of those same gullible dupes who will believe anything if it flatters their preconceptions.<\/p> \"This is messed up,\" he wrote a few hours later, at 3:42 am, as he reshared<\/a> a video posted by Visegrád 24, an influential independent news account that tweets about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war that's well-known for posting fake news<\/a>.<\/p> Visegrád 24 claimed the video showed \"armed communist Maduro gangs 'Colectivos' are now storming polling stations in Punta Cardón,\" Venezuela.<\/p> But as an X community note quickly pointed out, that was a complete lie.<\/p> \"Those are thieves stealing air conditioners and a woman can be heard in the video saying so,\" the note reads. \"Voting in Venezuela is done on small computers that look nothing like what appears in this video.\"<\/p> Musk quietly deleted the post without acknowledging that he'd spread fake news himself, the exact thing he'd just blamed the media for doing.<\/p> His hilariously timed blunder is far from the first. The mercurial CEO has a long history of bringing attention to racist conspiracy theories<\/a>, outright propaganda<\/a>, and completely made-up news reports<\/a>, allowing hate speech and fake news to flourish on the platform.<\/p> Other users were alarmed at Musk blindly \"believing everything\" he sees on his platform.<\/p> \"These are air conditioners, Elon Musk,\" one user tweeted<\/a>. \"Visegrad regularly posts fake news.\"<\/p> An account representing the distributed hacking group Anonymous chimed in as well.<\/p> \"In an attempt at pushing propaganda, Elon pushes a false narrative that the thieves in the video are stealing ballot boxes,\" Anonymous tweeted<\/a>, \"when it's easy to see they're stealing air conditioning units for windows.\"<\/p> Last week, Musk shared an AI-generated video<\/a> of vice president Kamala Harris, a flagrant violation of his platform's own policies.<\/p> In short, while a healthy dose of skepticism goes a long way when reading or watching the news, X-formerly-Twitter has quickly become a cesspool of unsourced claims and propaganda, making it a far worse place to catch up.<\/p> Worse yet, Musk's already tenuous connection to reality is as shaky as ever. With his endorsement<\/a> of the notorious liar Donald Trump, Musk has clearly abandoned any commitment to the truth — a troubling development given the presidential election is right around the corner.<\/p> More on Musk:<\/strong> Elon Musk Won't Apologize After Sharing Faked AI Video of Kamala Harris<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Elon Musk Bashes the News Media, Then Immediately Falls for Fake News<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read more from the original source: Feeling Dumb It's no secret that multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk spends an astonishing amount of time posting dubious political material on his social media echo chamber X-formerly-Twitter. Continue reading Believing Everything<\/h2>
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