Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company (symby.com)

Alive-in-2025 1 day ago

• lenkite 1 day ago

  The USA should formally change its name to CSA (Corporate States of America) or OSA (Oligarchy States of America). A product should advertise its functionality.

  • sheikhnbake 21 hours ago

    CSA is more fitting since that acronym was tried before and the corporate states of America will have a similar lifespan considering the direction the country is currently heading.

  • tim333 22 hours ago

    Or Oceania if it wants to get ahead of the curve.

• Zenul_Abidin 1 day ago

  There seems to be a lot of dishonesty in mainstream media in general, so personally I wouldn't mind a different perspective but the entire industry needs a reform.

  • JumpCrisscross 1 day ago

    > a different perspective

    The broad conclusion one reaches surveying the mainstream media and the alternative-facts media those rejecting the mainstream seem to find is that the former, despite its flaws, is far more a news source than the latter, which mostly tickles its users wants and insecurities.

    • swed420 21 hours ago

      > the former, despite its flaws, is far more a news source than the latter

      The difference between 50% truthiness and 75% truthiness is just not that important, especially when one manufactures consent for the other, and the missing 25% is the most important part.

      • JumpCrisscross 15 hours ago

        > difference between 50% truthiness and 75% truthiness is just not that important

        It’s a 1% false-information rate versus 20 to 40% [1]. (You can identify someone consuming that stuff within a few minutes of conversation. They’re unusually correlated in their tells, given how seemingly diverse the number of providers are.)

        > the missing 25% is the most important part

        Read real journalism from multiple countries. (Not the free propaganda stuff.)

        Once someone is addicted to alternative news, I don’t think they can be recovered. But we can keep more folks from going down that path.

        [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/partisan...

        [2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21670811.2024.23...

        [3] https://news.umich.edu/mainstream-news-more-reliable-than-so...

        • swed420 11 hours ago

          > It’s a 1% false-information rate versus 20 to 40%

          > buzzfeednews.com

          > Read real journalism from multiple countries.

          All of this is still going to be constricted by global capital interests.

          > Once someone is addicted to alternative news, I don’t think they can be recovered.

          Same for the average imperialist liberal guzzling NYT as gospel.

  • sbseitz 1 day ago

    I'd love to see facts/truth. Musk ain't it.

  • jurgenburgen 1 day ago

    Mainstream media is owned by the oligarchs. How does this increase perspectives?

    • swed420 21 hours ago

      This way we get to choose our preferred flavor of propaganda

  • watwut 1 day ago

    What different perspective? They are already biased toward right wing, just not enough for siegh heiling Musk

dead_hn_theory 1 day ago

• rf15 1 day ago

  Washington Post moment, I'd expect. The information space around the next election will be crazy. State of emergency and president for life, anyone?

  • polotics 1 day ago

    Not quite: in the timeline it's the next one that's for life, a neuralink-plugged CNN-says-he's-alive heir that will then be `alive` until humanity's extinction.

    just kidding

    • Henchman21 1 day ago

      > heir that will then be `alive` until humanity's extinction.

      So like 2030?

      • polotics 1 day ago

        you're welcome to develop the idea further as you see fit!

        • Henchman21 14 hours ago

          Honestly I feel like the people behind Warhammer 40k would sue ;)

sbseitz 1 day ago

sheikhnbake 21 hours ago

• Zigurd 20 hours ago

  How long does he get away with hiding his dead cows in herds of still living cows? SpaceX and Tesla have both been burdened with herds of dead cows without much of a dent in their ability to retain absurd valuations. It will be the case study of the century when it's finally in postmortem.

  • sheikhnbake 20 hours ago

    Probably until his favor with the executive branch comes to an end. Until that happens he'll keep getting federal/defense contracts and regulation won't be a concern.

    • Zigurd 18 hours ago

      That's normal. That's how defense contractors stay in business even when their products flop. There's something else going on with Elon. Can't put my finger on it, which is to say I don't understand investment bank fuckery well enough to identify who is levitating Elon's valuations.

  • tstrimple 7 hours ago

    There seems to be some fundamental thing in humans which makes a subset of them follow narcissists like messiahs. MAGA and Elon stans aren’t that far apart.