Scott Bessent

Elon Musk: Something's wrong with the press. Citizen journalism is the future. “The far-left press has been going on and on about how Trump is like Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin combined, and you rolled them all into one, and he's somehow worse than all three of them combined. These are people who have killed tens of millions of people. Something's wrong with the press, guys. Journalism is dead. What the heck is going on? It's bizarre. That's why 𝕏 is the future. It's citizen journalism, where you hear from the people, it's by the people, for the people. That's what it's all about. I think this is a super, super big deal, and it's absolutely fundamental and transformative that the people actually get to decide the news and the narrative and what matters. The legacy media is basically controlled by a handful of editors-in-chief. That's it. They decide what's going to get published. That's why I really encourage everyone out there to write stuff on the 𝕏 platform and other platforms too. But citizen journalism is the future. That's where you get to hear from actual experts in the field, people who are experts in any given industry. And you get to hear the rebuttal. If somebody says something that's wrong or requires more context people can add that. 𝕏 has got community notes, which is great. Community notes, I think, got a very good batting average. It's not perfect, but it's got a very good batting average.” Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 26, 2024