{"id":300769,"date":"2024-12-22T08:10:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300769"},"modified":"2024-12-23T08:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T08:51:03","slug":"associated-propaganda-musk-hits-out-at-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300769","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Associated Propaganda\u2019: Musk hits out at AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 Dec 21, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused the Associated Press (AP) of disseminating propaganda following the global news agency\u2019s coverage of Friday\u2019s deadly incident at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg.<\/p>\n<p>Musk referred to AP, as <em>\u201cAssociated Propaganda\u201d<\/em> in a post on X, which he owns, in which he criticized the agency&#8217;s reporting of the attack on civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire&#8217;s\u00a0comment was in response\u00a0to criticism by an X user over AP&#8217;s headline\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>\u201cA car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in Germany.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A speeding vehicle rammed into a crowd at Magdeburg\u2019s festive market on Friday evening, resulting in at least four fatalities, including a child, and injuring over 60 people, Bild reported, citing police.<\/p>\n<p>The user accused AP of using passive language that downplayed the severity of the attack, stating,\u00a0<em>\u201cYou don\u2019t hate the legacy media enough. The Associated Press uses a passive voice when reporting on the Christmas market terror attack in Magdeburg, Germany. As if the car simply drove itself peacefully, and the affected number of people small and insignificant.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a \u2018group of people\u2019\u2014it was an entirely mass of people whose bodies were flung by the force of the impact, and many more who were crushed beneath the wheels as the vehicle zigzagged its way through the packed market,\u201d he added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The driver, identified as a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor residing in Germany, was detained by police at the scene. Authorities have classified the act as a deliberate attack, though the motive remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AP stands for Associated Propaganda <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I0yT4wfL7n\">https:\/\/t.co\/I0yT4wfL7n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1870203968695001417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Musk\u2019s critique aligns with his history of challenging mainstream media outlets over perceived biases.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 Musk expressed concerns about the lack of public trust in news organizations, describing it as a <em>\u201creal problem.\u201d<\/em> This comment was in response to a Washington Post op-ed that criticized his involvement with X (then Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Musk claimed that the <em>\u201cpropaganda level\u201d<\/em> in mainstream media is <em>\u201ctediously high\u201d<\/em> and accused long-established outlets of bias in the narratives that they offer. The attack has prompted increased security measures across Germany, with several towns canceling weekend Christmas markets as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Musk lashed out at German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, insisting he must resign immediately, after it emerged that the man who mowed through a crowded Christmas market in Germany was an Arab immigrant with a residence permit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_144359\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=144357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144359\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-144359 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Police-and-emergency-workers-stand-next-to-the-crashed-truck-near-Kurfuerstendamm-avenue-in-west-Berlin-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-144359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police and emergency workers stand next to a crashed truck at the site of an attack at a Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz square near the fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue in Berlin, Germany, Dec 19, 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This incident mirrors previous attacks on Christmas markets in Germany, notably the 2016 Berlin attack in which a truck was deliberately driven into a crowded market, killing 12 people and injuring 56. The attacker in that instance, Anis Amri, a Tunisian national who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, fled the scene and was later killed in a shootout with police in Italy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/609729-musk-calls-ap-associated-propaganda\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk has accused the Associated Press of spreading propaganda by playing down the extent and severity of the terror attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300774,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300769\/revisions\/300774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}