Newspaper Editor: Elon Musk Unleashed “Fire Hose Of Hatred” And Antisemitic Death Threats On Our Writers

September 19, 2023 Crackpots, Social Media

From the editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

I’ve never seen more dehumanizing vitriol and hostility directed at journalists at any time in my career. And that was before this weekend.

Before an unspeakably awful video of a heinous crime went viral on social media. Before the Las Vegas Review-Journal and one of its finest reporters were somehow caught up in the story based on a completely false narrative about month-old coverage. Before conspiracy theorists, agenda-driven ideologues and even Elon Musk decided to engage in an unfounded media criticism dogpile to keep the outrage roaring.

Over the past three days, Review-Journal employees’ social media and email accounts have been filled with accusations of every bias you can imagine, obscenities, racist tirades and wishes of personal suffering and death. Such sentiments are, unfortunately, not new. But the volume of filth we’re seeing right now is unprecedented in my tenure. It’s like a fire hose of hatred to the face.

Read the full editorial. It’s really something. As you can see below and as he regularly does, Musk got the story completely wrong. The Community Notes fact check tells how it actually went down.



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