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Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com)
Fake news galvanized US president-elect Donald Trump's supporters, and sullied his enemies. Now it may be Elon Musk's turn. Quartz adds: The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has his fair share of detractors, but a new era in a public relations battle to discredit him appears to be taking shape. Bloomberg reports that hard-right groups are lining up to back misleading websites and fake journalists who attack Musk's business empire. Many of the attacks on Musk begin with something factual: His businesses were built, legally, with the help of billions in government contracts and incentives for renewable energy and space transport. But they go on to accuse Musk of fraud and wasting taxpayer dollars; some compare him to a convicted felon. At least three conservative sites have run negative pieces about Musk -- by a nonexistent writer named "Shepard Stewart" -- that include "Elon Musk Continues to Blow Up Taxpayer Money With Falcon 9" and "Elon Musk: Faux Free Marketeer and National Disgrace." Two later retracted the stories. "There's a very obvious precedent" for this, says Sam Jaffe, managing director of Cairn Energy Research Advisors. "That's Hillary Clinton." Musk tweeted this week, "Can anyone uncover who is really writing these fake pieces?"
You didn't get it, did you? You're making my point for me. You shouldn't believe the mainstream media because they're not credible. You saw, I saw, the entire world saw them totally back Hillary Clinton in a shameful abandonment of the last shreds of them being truth-tellers. Moreover on an entirely journalistic standpoint, they entirely missed the real story of the election. Like, it didn't even enter their consciousness.
When powerful people tell you to ignore news, what should you do? Obey, or disobey purely on principle and go and see what they want to hide? Did you know a lot of this "fake news" is being created by leftists themselves as false flag operations to try to discredit these new media? If you didn't, then you're probably getting fake news. These false flag operators are also making five figures a month from ad sales, which is hypocritical seeing how anti-capitalist they all are.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Fake news has been a thing for a long ass fucking time, why are they JUST NOW making a big deal out of it? Examples of really old fake news sites:
prisonplanet.com and infowars.com (these sites are run by the same people)
Every website owned by Kevin Trudeau
naturalnews.com
mercola.com
Every 9/11 conspiracy theory site that ever existed
I thought Trump supporters were going to be really fucking obnoxious when they lost...boy did I underestimate left wing supporters. Sure, Trump supporters would have created a lot of conspiracy theories too, but I really don't think they'd all suddenly turn 12 and block traffic and protest democracy, nor would they threaten to move to a country (Canada) that doesn't want people who want to ban firearms and block freeways.
Dude, stop blaming the Russians - Hillary made her vile bed and now she's got to lie in it. You can't pretend that Americans want another Obama decade, after all the shit he's pulled, they want somebody who represents (potentially catastrophic, but real) change. And anything's better than supporting those pedo fucktards in the DNC. That Podesta creep and and all the money from Middle Eastern interests that flowed into the Clinton Foundation should give anybody pause.