FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk attends the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Patrick Pleul/Pool via REUTERS//File Photo Patrick Pleul/Pool/Reuters/File

“You are the media now.” Elon Musk’s repeated refrain on his popular social media platform X has been his way of urging his followers to ignore traditional journalism in favor of what he calls “citizen journalism.”

“I think the media is a driver of misinformation much more than the media would like to admit that they are,” Musk said in an interview with the BBC in 2023. “In a lot of cases, it is the average citizen that knows more than the journalist.”

A former communications chief for X thinks otherwise. He is speaking out for the first time in an exclusive interview with

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