Media Bias

BigRedBuster said:
I'm interested in knowing what you think I'm incorrect on with Elon.

He very regularly posts things like this statement about legacy media.



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He also is regularly community noted on his tweets because they are misleading or flat out false.
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I don't think he is wrong about legacy main stream media. They tell the story to fit their (right or left leaning) version of it.

Community notes? I follow Elon and have never seen that...do you have examples?

edit: I now see a couple examples...the first one is not a serious community note as it does not refute the point, but makes it "differently"

The second is a "trust me bro"

 
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DevoHusker said:
I don't think he is wrong about legacy main stream media. They tell the story to fit their (right or left leaning) version of it.
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Weather you agree with him or not, doesn't make my statement false.  And, it seems like you are agreeing that he says this often.

DevoHusker said:
Community notes? I follow Elon and have never seen that...do you have examples?
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I gave a couple examples.

 
DevoHusker said:
the first one is not a serious community note as it does not refute the point, but makes it "differently"
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What?  The tweet that he passed along was false.  It purposely leaves out a blanket pardon from Carter of over 200,000 draft dodgers....meanwhile, it includes a blanket pardon from Biden of 6500 on marijuana possession.  It is a direct example of false or misleading information being promoted with an agenda.

 
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BigRedBuster said:
What?  The tweet that he passed along was false.  It purposely leaves out a blanket pardon from Carter of over 200,000 draft dodgers....meanwhile, it includes a blanket pardon from Biden of 6500 on marijuana possession.  It is a direct example of false or misleading information being promoted with an agenda.
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If you look up number of pardons by Carter, it says 566 with the caveat of "plus the anonymous pardon of around 200,000 draft dodgers" but you are correct.

Is the Biden number correct or no? Maybe there should be another community note that says "6,500 of those were for marijuana charges" but the other 1,500 were for embezzlers, ponzi scheme thieves and child porn collectors. I guess that would fix it. 

Oh, and Switzerland does require every male between the ages of 18 and 35 to own/possess a firearm. 

 
DevoHusker said:
If you look up number of pardons by Carter, it says 566 with the caveat of "plus the anonymous pardon of around 200,000 draft dodgers" but you are correct.

Is the Biden number correct or no? Maybe there should be another community note that says "6,500 of those were for marijuana charges" but the other 1,500 were for embezzlers, ponzi scheme thieves and child porn collectors. I guess that would fix it. 

Oh, and Switzerland does require every male between the ages of 18 and 35 to own/possess a firearm. 
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As far as Carter vs. Biden, it just needs to be consistent one way or the other.

 
BigRedBuster said:
Weather you agree with him or not, doesn't make my statement false
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This is your direct wording which you have yet to show an example of.  So yes, you are giving a false statement as of now.  
 

I constantly see Elon telling everyone in Twitter that legacy news outlets are dead because they are extreme left and you should never trust them.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Is anyone really confused why someone would have a negative take on Elon Musk? 
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I love the fact that he used to be very in vogue with the left...it was Tesla this, and Space X that, and OMG he launched a convertible into space...that's so cool. 

Then, when he bought Twitter, and it became obvious he was a conservative, he became an outcast, a pariah for libs, and nothing he did or does could ever be viewed positively. I will post in the Shed a tweet which relates to this.

 
DevoHusker said:
I love the fact that he used to be very in vogue with the left...it was Tesla this, and Space X that, and OMG he launched a convertible into space...that's so cool. 

Then, when he bought Twitter, and it became obvious he was a conservative, he became an outcast, a pariah for libs, and nothing he did or does could ever be viewed positively. I will post in the Shed a tweet which relates to this.
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Well, he promoted Tesla because he was soooo concerned about global warming and he was saving the planet...bla bla bla.

Now, this new transformation, just proves that all of that was for show and trying to make money off of the issue.  I'm sure you can see why liberals that bought his cars thinking they are saving the planet would be turned off by him now.

It's similar to conservatives LOVE him now because he bought twitter and was going to save the world by exposing all the biases that were imbedded in the old ownership/management.  Meanwhile, he's just as bad as them or worse....but conservatives still love him because now he's biased in their direction.

 
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