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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?"
The mainstream media like CNN, NBC and The New York Times are the fake news. Seriously, their coverage of Donald Trump's campaign was so disgustingly biased, dishonest and untrustworthy. And the fake polls showing Hillary with a huge lead when they polled more democrats than republicans?! This election was the final nail in the coffin of the mainstream media for me. Sites HATED by the mainstream media, like Breitbart, are real truth based media to me. I'm very glad that Trump won the election even though I'm not an American and don't live in the USA. The true intolerant, hateful, race bating, and violent people are the left wing democrats. You wouldn't know by following the main stream media, but when you go to real news sites like Breitbart you find out about violent liberals beating the shit out of Republicans for voting for Trump, or trying to making things up pretending to be a victim of Trump supporters only to be exposed as a liar. They're mad that the woman funded by Saudia Arabia, the most misogynistic and homophobic country in the world, didn't win the election after she STOLE the nomination from Bernie. Bernie wins a state, Hillary gets the delegates.
Not sure what this MSM uproar over "fake news" is about. Is it blowback for the right exposing their coverup of Hillary's seizures? The idea that there is "fake" news sounds like something straight out of some dystopic authoritarian regime. Information is out there. Some is more factual than other. But we live in a society in which no one has the right to censor information of any kind.
This entire "fake news" thing is bullshit, just like the rigged mainstream media in this sick plutocracy.
Thank God for Donald Trump.
Drain the swamp!
"fake news". Put it in scarequotes a few more times. That helps to make it "not a real thing". Genius. Please, mention "Hillary's seizures" in your reply, you know you really want to.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.