Elon Musk: “Information should bubble up from the people, not be decided by a few editors-in-chief.”

Elon Musk: Information should bubble up from the people, not be decided by a few editors-in-chief.

“We should have the free marketplace of ideas. People can propose an idea, people can discuss an idea. They can make a statement, people can rebut that. The people can decide. And I think it's far better for information to bubble up from the voice of the people than to be decided by a handful of editors-in-chief of newspapers.

The biggest point of manipulation that occurs in the media is not when the media says something that's false or misleading – because they do that – but their choice of narrative, what are they going to talk about. By choosing to focus on one thing and not focus on another thing, they're steering what information the public receives.

I think the right thing is that the narratives that are important should be the narratives that the people as a whole think are important, not what a few media oligarchs think is important. But they sure like controlling information.”

Town Hall in Harrisburg, October 19, 2024