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Elon Musk has been taking no prisoners lately. He is currently in the midst of a lawsuit with Twitter. This will be the one where the company that previously didn’t want Musk to buy them now seems to want to force him to buy them. Moral confusion at its finest. Only a few months after the New York Times deployed a ridiculous article aimed at casting Fox’s Tucker Carlson as an emboldening agent against the supposed rise in white supremacy in America. Now, it appears that the Wall Street Journal is anxious to sink even lower than the Times.
The piece in question indicts Musk with the charge that he slept with the wife of one of the co-founders of Google, Sergey Brin. Musk promptly commented that, “WSJ should be running stories that actually matter to their readers and have a solid factual basis, not third-party random hearsay. Nicole and Sergey’s divorce has absolutely nothing to do with me.
According to one source, the journal claimed it ruined the friendship between the two tech visionaries but Musk sent a picture to the New York Post showing he and Brin at a party together last night.
Musk went on to say that “I am sure both Nicole and Sergey would confirm that. I spoke with both Sergey and Nicole about this and they say the story isn’t coming from them, so it must be a case of broken telephone, two or three layers removed.”
Musk went on to sharpen his point about his relationship with Nicole, saying “And, not to dodge the question, I have only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around”. “We were not romantically involved in any way.
Finally, Musk finished off by clarifying his long and still very current friendship with Mr. Brin: “This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!”
Musk concluded with a scathing critique of the state of journalism, and indeed, of the Wall Street Journal. “WSJ is supposed to have a high standard for journalism and, right now, they are way sub tabloid.
He continued, saying, “…the character assassination attacks have reached a new level this year, but the articles are all nothing-burgers.
Musk fumed that, “I work crazy hours, so there just isn’t much time for shenanigans.
“None of the key people involved in these alleged wrongdoings were even interviewed,” he said.
In conclusion, while the hits seem to just keep coming to Musk, he has so far been able to deftly evade, dodge, and even counter punch back to his opponents. He has been able to do so with a biting wit and humor that has characterized his Twitter. This seems to be the latest in a line of poorly constructed hit pieces that have been deployed by ideologues who are less interested in true journalism and more interested in blind activism. Perhaps we really do live in a post-truth world. Time will tell.
