Pravda

In 2018 Elon Musk tweeted:

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. Thinking of calling it Pravda …

Even if some of the public doesn’t care about the credibility score, the journalists, editors & publications will. It is how they define themselves.

And today:

As Twitter pursues the goal of elevating citizen journalism, media elite will try everything to stop that from happening

Mainstream media will still thrive, but increased competition from citizens will cause them to be more accurate, as their oligopoly on information is disrupted

Elon's vision has remained consistent. He wants to destroy journalism and replace it with citizen apophenia, encouraging his followers to do their own research and find patterns that simply aren't there.

Twitter's official Twitter account, @twitter, hasn't posted since the 13th of October. It's remained silent through the whole of the upheaval. It's terse profile text poses the question:

What's happening?!

The answer is simple.

Pravda.

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