[Mountain_Skies]

Lots of things get claimed hiding behind "sources say", "reportedly" and other weasel words. These aren't the Pentagon Papers where anonymity is essential to one's continuing to have a heartbeat. While it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, without some actual evidence, its office gossip muckraking of the type you used to have to purchase a tabloid to read about.

[toss1]

Umm, considering that the most senior people have literally been fired on the spot for as little as merely suggesting at look at data that Dear Leader Musk's popularity may have declined, and he has a history of similar vindictiveness (hiring PI's to investigate & harass disgruntled employees, etc.), there are very real consequences here that people need to worry about, so journalistic protection of sources is clearly warranted if we want to get any news at all.

[rchaud]

> its office gossip muckraking of the type you used to have to purchase a tabloid to read about.

Or you could just follow the CEO's Twitter:

"Musk participated in a Twitter Spaces Friday night about childhood exploitation, and responded to one of the participants on Saturday after she linked to an old tweet of Roth’s.

“Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis,” tweeted Musk, with an excerpt from the 300-page dissertation."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/elon-musk-smears-for...