'BEAST MODE ACTIVATED': Elon Musk UNLOADS on media for their 'holier-than-thou HYPOCRISY'

It’s happening, people.

Merry Litmas https://t.co/RDEaiXtXf6

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 23, 2018

Tesla’s been taking some hits from the media lately …

Tesla (TSLA) could rally as media negativity is ‘increasingly immaterial’, says Baird https://t.co/ppGSaPoxE4 by @fredericlambert pic.twitter.com/ydQ76TT1lF

— Electrek.Co (@ElectrekCo) May 23, 2018

And its CEO Elon Musk is fed up. No, seriously. He’s pretty pissed:

The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them https://t.co/Ay2DwCOMkr

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Musk continues his slow transformation into a media-baiting Trump figure screaming irrationally about fake news. Hope it works out for you dude! https://t.co/CtHkOip747

— Andrew J. Hawkins ??? (@andyjayhawk) May 23, 2018

Thought you’d say that. Anytime anyone criticizes the media, the media shrieks “You’re just like Trump!” Why do you think he got elected in the first place? Because no ones believes you any more. You lost your credibility a long time ago.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Dude.

This… So true!!! https://t.co/O7izlkKWzS

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 23, 2018

? https://t.co/esHgkzC8Ag

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 23, 2018

And Musk was just getting started:

blaming the messenger is the hot new thing everyone's doing https://t.co/IJkOEBx4fo

— J Emory Parker ? Subscribe to The Post & Courier (@jaspar) May 23, 2018

I'm a fan of your's since reading the Wait But Why pieces, but I am really unhappy w tweets like this. Fanning the flames of the distrust of the media is a thing that authoritarians and demagogues do to ignore criticism and discredit opponents. It's a major problem of our times.

— Teddy Monacelli (@teddymonacelli) May 23, 2018

The media has earned this mistrust. But maybe there is a solution.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Problem is journos are under constant pressure to get max clicks & earn advertising dollars or get fired. Tricky situation, as Tesla doesn’t advertise, but fossil fuel companies & gas/diesel car companies are among world’s biggest advertisers.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

this is real lazy criticism yo.

— codyb (@CodyBrown) May 23, 2018

Uh, this is Twitter. How many characters do you want?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

And yet, journos are very willing to pursue stories that burn advertisers and other financial benefactors. The @WSJ published the investigation that destroyed Theranos, even though Rupert Murdoch was Theranos's biggest investor ($125M)

— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) May 23, 2018

An exception that proves the rule

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Is Musk planning on branching out, business-wise?

Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Awesome, yelp for journalists.

— Den Dal (@sakiwebo) May 23, 2018

Exactly

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

But trolls and spambots could ruin it. Need a good plan to counter them

— Virtual Anomaly (@Virtualanom) May 23, 2018

Not only needs to be botproof, but seek & unmask anyone operating a disinformation bot army

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Maybe you should give the guys at Snopes or Politifact a call to help you with that.

— Taylor Harris (@AntVenom) May 23, 2018

Maybe some good people from those orgs who would join

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

https://twitter.com/DetroitVictoria/status/999367815353298945

Enough of the public does care about the truth. I have faith in the people.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Even if some of the public doesn’t care about the credibility score, the journalists, editors & publications will. It is how they define themselves.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Tesla doesn't advertise? pic.twitter.com/XwFcF0qzdy

— Soph (@SophieWarnes) May 23, 2018

We don’t. The media is reporting someone else saying that Tesla advertised. It is untrue.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Some journalist don’t have ability to write their own headlines though…

— Scotch.io (@scotch_io) May 23, 2018

That’s why editors are included too

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Musk is crowdsourcing this thing:

Create a media credibility rating site (that also flags propaganda botnets)

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

please make it worldwide. People do care about truth,just that they don't have many sources to get it

— Shashank Bhatia (@iShashankBhatia) May 23, 2018

Will do

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

This could get pretty interesting. If nothing else, the potential entertainment value makes all this talk worth it.

Oh is that the problem, Elon? @Reveal is a non profit, suffering from none of these problems.

The ignorance this man displays daily of the journalism process is truly astounding. https://t.co/779hTkwNZ5

— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) May 23, 2018

No, they’re just some rich kids in Berkeley who took their political science prof too seriously

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018

Dayum!

Elon Musk is currently the owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and the libs.

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 23, 2018

https://twitter.com/MrHankey8170/status/999365045111967745

Beast mode activated https://t.co/pJS07u8SVn

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 23, 2018

Welcome to the intellectual dark web, Elon Musk https://t.co/jYR6CLLO6Y

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 23, 2018

And so history students, that's how it came to pass that Elon Musk and Peter Thiel reformed American journalism in the early part of the 21st century………. https://t.co/ErUNACzqeb

— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) May 23, 2018

Selling electric cars to libs to fund a movement to destroy their journos to own the libs

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 23, 2018

The Elon R. Musk wing of Gitmo where the journos are housed will be carbon neutral and built using sustainable materials.

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 23, 2018

Gitmo would be great … but why not set his sights a little higher? Or a lot higher?