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Elon Musk’s Use of X Mimics Hearst’s and Ford’s Manipulation of Media - Software Unplugged

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An entrepreneur who revolutionized the automobile business decides he now needs to change how the world thinks, so he buys a media property to use as a megaphone. His rants validate many people’s worst impulses while also encouraging enemies of democracy around the world. This sounds like Elon Musk and his social media site X in 2025, but it was also Henry Ford and his paper, The Dearborn Independent, in the 1920s. Ford, the inventor of the Mode…
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softwareunplugged.com broke the news in on Saturday, May 10, 2025.
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