• JerkyChew@lemmy.one
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    5 months ago

    Headline incorrect and misleading. He’s still donating to his new pro-Trump PAC rather than Trump directly, which is what the original WSJ article said anyways. Whoever wrote this article should be fired for regurgitating Musk’s spin without fact checking.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Tbf, that’s sorta what Fortune exists to do: regurgitate whatever billionaires and their PR reps say without fact checking.

      Can’t fire a worker for upholding the raison d’etre of the publication 🤷

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          Because the headline is like something out of The Onion and I figured that the good people (and others) of “nottheonion” would appreciate that 🤷

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        Completely agreed. There is very little in the way of actual journalism there, it’s really an industry rag.

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        Journalists are now more similar to the police, just regime lapdogs doing regime bidding while pretending to be for the people lol

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    5 months ago

    Bullshit. I subscribe to the idea he’s funneling money through the PAC back to Twitter to boost ad buy numbers.

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    Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund the Republican candidate, the billionaire told conservative commentator Jordan Peterson during an interview Monday evening.

    What a bullshit headline. It’s literally the first line of the article.

    So he is spending money to fund Trump. He’s just going through a super PAC because he can’t legally straight up give Trump 45 million.

    He probably talked to his lawyers and they told him to correct himself.

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    “One of those values being meritocracy, as much meritocracy as possible, so you get ahead as a function of your skill, and nothing else,” Musk said.

    😂😂😂