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Elon Musk, the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley

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Re: Elon Musk, the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley

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Post by gus_massa »

4684499 wrote: post #3

previous post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17159962

From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

It's not very clear, but the other post has only 4 upvotes and 1 comment, so it doesn't count as "significant attention".

Re: Elon Musk, the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley

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Post by exembly »

In case anyone might be out of the loop, this is likely a response to a series of tweets criticizing the media that Musk made recently.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999355619390865408

He even addressed this style of response directly in one tweet.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999357298861486080

And finally he suggested and then ran a twitter poll on the idea of creating a media credibility monitoring website.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999367582271422464

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999374720368689153

Re: Elon Musk, the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley

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Post by Rapzid »

exembly wrote: post #7

In case anyone might be out of the loop, this is likely a response to a series of tweets criticizing the media that Musk made recently. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999355619390865408 He even addressed this style of response directly in one tweet. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999357298861486080 And finally he suggested and then ran a twitter poll on the idea of creating a media credibility monitoring we…

Musk is not entirely wrong, but things are heated ATM and he's not the best messenger perhaps at this time.

The NY times article is incredibly focused on pushing a narrative; no mention of space-x or the purchasing of solar city ahead of CAs recent roof top solar mandate..

It's an opinion piece, I get that. But serious news organizations can't keep pulling the opinion card to excuse away posting purposefully inflammatory, divisive, and dishonest "journalism" if they want to be taken seriously. It's really sad to me that the NYT would be party to such hit pieces, but this is 2018 I suppose.

P.S. I vouched this thread as I believe HN can have an honest, civil discussion about both Elon Musk's business shortcomings and the medias credibility issues.

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