Ghanaian media personality, journalist, and advocate known for her outspokenness on social and political issues, Bridget Otoo, has labelled the owner of X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, as “disingenuous.”
This comes after the Tesla boss tweeted on Sunday, July 14, following an attempted assassination of former USA president Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Before it was confirmed that, the noise that caused the whisking away of Trump during the campaign rally, many media outlets such as BBC, abc news reported that the former president had to be taken away following loud noises that scared him and the crowd.
With an image of various media outlets’ headlines, Trump’s supporter, Elon Musk dragged traditional media as a “propaganda machine,” taunting X as the seemingly right platform to get authentic news reports.
“The legacy media is a pure propaganda machine. 𝕏 is the voice of the people” the tweet read.
Bridget in reaction slammed the X owner for his insincerity and pretense schooling him over how news is reported that is citing how headlines are changed as more updates evolve with time.
“You are disingenuous. These were the headlines when the initial report came and no one knew it was gunshot. They changed the headlines as more updates came in but you conveniently promoted the first reports.
That’s how media works: headlines change as story develop and more update come in. “Loud noise progressed to gunshots and to assassination attempts” she tweeted.
She went on to urge Elon to ” Do better with your own platform, other than “promoting” the wrong narratives about media. “It won’t serve your base” she added.