“You are the media now.” Elon Musk’s repeated refrain on his popular social media platform X has been his way of urging his followers to ignore traditional journalism in favor of what he calls “citizen journalism.”
“I think the media is a driver of misinformation much more than the media would like to admit that they are,” Musk said in an interview with the BBC in 2023. “In a lot of cases, it is the average citizen that knows more than the journalist.”
A former communications chief for X thinks otherwise. He is speaking out for the first time in an exclusive interview with CNN and with a stern warning: Soci
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