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[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 151 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 112 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Counter point: If I didn’t hear how badly he runs his businesses, or how bad his company’s products are. I would have easily bought one or more of his products.

I have backed out of Tesla pre-orders because of the bad publicity, many reports of bad build quality, and terrible business decisions.

If this was a puff piece, I honestly wouldn’t have bothered posting it.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you just go into every single article and spam this comment?

[–] hyperhopper@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's right though. We can't go a day without some inane bullshit about musk getting posted. This event happened 8 years ago, it's not even news. It should have "2015" in the title. This is a bad post, and I'm disappointed we always have to have these kinds of posts around.

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy needs muting filters so we can just mute anything mentioning Elon Musk

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is probably a third party app with that functionality

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Ya, I think most do. I never use my phone for web browsing though, personally.

[–] tjaden@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Normally I would agree with you. But some of these comments here are dark humor gold, so I'm conflicted.

Sorry...

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

It's not even especially an informative or interesting article. It just picks out one tiny little story from the book and puts a bunch of unnecessary padding around it.

[–] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, because of him being a billionaire his PR is self sustaining and posts about him aren't going anywhere.

[–] Supertramper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I checked the Business Insider news feed last week. Within 9 hours they posted 8 (!) Musk “news” stories. It’s ridiculous.