Elon Musk took to Twitter today morning in Asia to criticize traditional media for pumping out a “relentless hate stream” of bad news.
In a string of tweets and replies to another post, The Tesla. CEO lamented that it was “so hard to find out what’s going on in the world without being bombarded with news that makes one sad and angry!”
Musk pointed out the media for being “focusing relentlessly” on bad news, saying it doesn’t give an accurate representation of reality. In a reply to another user, the billionaire said “careless negativity is much harder than thoughtful positivity.”
The tweets came a few hours after Brett Winton, director of research at Ark Investment Management LLC, tweeted ” it is deeply weird that the internet tried to bully, threaten, extort and browbeat us into giving up on Tesla,” the electric-car pioneer that sold more than 936,000 cars last year, up 87 per cent on 2020 figures.
To this Musk replied ” the insane tweet FUD campaign and press hate stream of 2017-19 is still easily found,” using the shorthand for fear, uncertainty and doubt. Elon Musk was particularly active in replying to other users. In one exchange he offered that “maybe part of why traditional media outlets are so negative is because old habits die hard? They so rarely even try to be positive that said censorship isn’t the answer.”
Most news outlets attempt to answer the question: “What are the worst things happening on Earth today?”
It’s a big planet! Obviously, some bad things are happening somewhere at any given time, but focusing relentlessly on those does not give an accurate picture of reality.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2022
