In unhinged Twitter rant, Elon Musk says he's creating a site for rating 'truth'
Rockets, cars, tunnels, brain-linking computers, candy, and... the definitive arbiter of truth?
In an unhinged Twitter rant Wednesday afternoon, Grimes’s boyfriend Elon Musk proudly announced to his fanboys the world that he intends to create a website dedicated to rating individual journalists and news organization based on their supposed truthfulness.
And here’s the thing: We think he’s serious.
“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,” tweeted Musk. “Thinking of calling it Pravda ...”
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Sure, Musk has turned seemingly joke ideas into reality before (Boring Company, anyone?), but it's not just his propensity for batshit ideas that has us convinced he means business this time around. As Economist reporter Mark Harris pointed out, it appears that one of Musk’s “agents” incorporated “Pravda Corp” last year.
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But Musk wasn’t done just yet. He also created a Twitter poll about this very idea.
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Oh yeah, and he blamed “the media” for Donald Trump.
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That’s right, the same Donald Trump whom Elon Musk has publicly thanked and whose invitation to sit on the White House business advisory council he initially accepted before only later realizing what a mistake it was.
Meanwhile, we imagine that Grimes — whose mother is a journalist — is second-guessing a lot of her recent choices.
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Well, maybe not a lot of them. But definitely one.
