After getting trolled by a single random poster

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/they-didnt-even-bother-verify-fortune-magazine-tricked-musk-hit-piece-internet-rando

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Fortune Magazine published a hit piece on Elon Musk and X on Friday, claiming that two sources told them the social media giant was planning to remove dates from posts, and charge an $8 sign-up fee.

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Musk has floated the idea of nixing date and time stamps from the timeline to X to employees in recent weeks, a person familiar with internal conversations told Fortune. The suggestion, which has raised worries among some staffers for its potential to exacerbate misinformation, comes as X is moving ahead with a separate plan to begin charging new users an $8 fee to sign up and begin posting on the platform, two sources told Fortune.

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Only one problem - there was only one source, a random anonymous person on the internet who emailed journalist Kali Hays (also of Business Insider).

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So a single rando sends false trolling info to Fortune Magazine about Musk and X, fortune runs with it claiming they have sources plural, only to be outed by the original troll.

Fortune Magazine published a hit piece on Elon Musk and X on Friday, claiming that two sources told them the social media giant was planning to remove dates from posts, and charge an $8 sign-up fee.

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Musk has floated the idea of nixing date and time stamps from the timeline to X to employees in recent weeks, a person familiar with internal conversations told Fortune. The suggestion, which has raised worries among some staffers for its potential to exacerbate misinformation, comes as X is moving ahead with a separate plan to begin charging new users an $8 fee to sign up and begin posting on the platform, two sources told Fortune.

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How I fooled @FortuneMagazine and Kali Hays:

A thread exposing how unreliable mainstream media can be!

Fortune published an article based on false information I sent them from an anonymous email address.

They didn’t even bother to verify the details.

1/n@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/9OlVTiznSi

— Fortune Exposed (@fortune_exposed) January 10, 2025

As long as the assertion supports their narritive or paints a perceived enemy in a bad light, the legacy media couldn't care less if a source was correct, or if the source even exists in the first place. They have proven over and over again they aren't above making things up.

As has been said often, real journalism is dead.

I think there needs to be an uprising of these "gotcha" media hunters. Flood them with these fake leads.

That will be the only thing that will finally force them to research their stories and at least be somewhat accurate with their reporting. Gotta tie negative consequences to bad behavior if you want them to change, cause they won't do it on.their own.

And it will expose them over and over again, which is a bonus.

Well more than two sources told me that Fortune mag was a POS, it must be true.

Her editor should be fired along with her.

rocky the dog said:

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Enlighten me. When were democrats the party of "kindness?"

Maybe I've been on this deserted island too long, but I'm truly baffled by that comment.

Her fortune profile say she coversai and major tech companies alphabet, meta, and x. You can find her on Bluesky and Threads.

Based on article titles her hit pieces are only against Musk.

Yes please give me tech info from a biased source.

Like every other "journalist", she's a fraud.

Much like Trump to ABC and Stephanopoulos...

Musk should hit them with a defamation suit.

Tie the author, the editor, and the magazine up in litigation.

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I think there needs to be an uprising of these "gotcha" media hunters. Flood them with these fake leads.

That will be the only thing that will finally force them to research their stories and at least be somewhat accurate with their reporting. Gotta tie negative consequences to bad behavior if you want them to change, cause they won't do it on.their own.

And it will expose them over and over again, which is a bonus.

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Flood them with fake stories and then let Musk and Trump etc sue any media that publishes the fake stories.

All magazines and media rags are running hit piece after hit piece on Musk. It's incredible how transparently corrupt they are.

The MSM doesn't properly source material if it's against Trump/GOP/Conservatives. If they get a nugget that makes the right look bad, they run with it. It happens over and over.

This is what people want, or should I say, instinctively desire.. We can deny it, but the sources that do this make the most money.

Objectively, health care and gay marriage would be examples of what he was talking about. Both originated from legitimate issues. High cost health care and lack of domestic protections. The Democrats offered a solution and Republicans didn't. Doesn't matter if it's a terrible solution, you need to do better than just saying, "No" to their plan, especially when the underlying issues have a good amount of support.

rgvag11 said:

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This is what people want, or should I say, instinctively desire.. We can deny it, but the sources that do this make the most money.

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We want to get trolled by anonymous sources? I don't but given some posters history maybe they all do. I just like laughing at lazy journalism

Gilligan said:

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rocky the dog said:

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Enlighten me. When were democrats the party of "kindness?"

Maybe I've been on this deserted island too long, but I'm truly baffled by that comment.

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Don't you remember when they put on white robes and pointy hoods? Then lynched persons of color? That org was a community service organization for the dems.

Gilligan said:

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rocky the dog said:

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Enlighten me. When were democrats the party of "kindness?"

Maybe I've been on this deserted island too long, but I'm truly baffled by that comment.

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A better way of saying that is "in my ignorant youth, I mistakenly thought the Democratic Party was based on kindness, now I see them for what they are, the party of hate and division built on the lie that doing whatever you want (whether here illegally or not) should be supported.

How does Fortune magazine stay in business?

backintexas2013 said:

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rgvag11 said:

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This is what people want, or should I say, instinctively desire.. We can deny it, but the sources that do this make the most money.

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We want to get trolled by anonymous sources? I don't but given some posters history maybe they all do. I just like laughing at lazy journalism

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Anonymous sources. Dubious sources. People care about the slant of their sources, and the moment their preferred publication has a hard truth to tell, people will complain and eventually leave. Faux journalism sources get the most eyeballs and make the most money. They are laughing all the way to the bank. Acting like people actually care about real journalism is hilarious.

bonfarr said:

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Her editor should be fired along with her.

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Yet they won't be. Insanity.

What's funny is that as of this morning that article is still up

bonfarr said:

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Her editor should be fired along with her.

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Lawsuit into bankruptcy!