Elon Musk is the world's richest man, but that doesn't mean he's a great communicator even when he's making a good-faith effort to do so.
Recently he went on X and stated that "recycling is useless."
This statement launched a fierce debate on the merits of recycling. And part of that debate was on Reddit, of course.
Is Musk being serious? It's hard to tell when the man is trying to make a fact-based point and when he's spreading propaganda.
DW.com reported just some of Musk's problematic statements in the article Fact check: Elon Musk spreads US election lies.
"Since Elon Musk took over X, the platform has devolved into a hellscape of hate and disinformation — much of which comes from Mr. Musk himself," Imran Ahmed, head of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), told DW.
Unlike most tech billionaires and political donors, Musk's political involvement is highly visible and has intensified ahead of the US presidential election on November 5. A recent CCDH report found that Musk's false or misleading claims about the US election got 1.2 billion views between January and July 2024 on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), which he owns.
What do you think?
