Musk, known for his strained relations with the media, announced in May 2018 the creation of a separate platform for fact-checking articles and tracking the rating of journalists.
“We are creating a site where the public will be able to assess the veracity of any article and monitor the trust rating of each journalist, editor and publication. I’m thinking of calling it “Truth,” Musk wrote on Twitter on May 23, 2018.
In April 2023, he re-shared the post, adding the mysterious “or just X”.
Or maybe just X
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 24, 2023
Musk seems to be hinting at a revival of the project and its updated name. The billionaire has long been attracted to the letter “X” – in 1999 he founded X.com, an online bank that soon merged with another company to become PayPal. “X” also appears in the names of his products and companies – SpaceX, Tesla Model X. After the acquisition of Twitter in October, Musk said that the purchase would “accelerate” the creation of the mysterious super app X “for everything”.
The entrepreneur recently joined Twitter Inc. (actually Twitter, as the company no longer exists) to a new venture, X Corp, and also quietly founded his own AI company called X.AI.
Another trigger word for the billionaire is “Truth”. In a recent interview with Fox News, he said that he is working on the creation of TruthGPT, a chatbot with artificial intelligence that will “search for the truth” (as a matter of fact, the site was announced a few years ago).
- When the site, still under the name Pravda, was announced in 2018, Musk said in a series of tweets that the platform would allow evaluating the quality and veracity of publications, as well as track the rating of journalists and become a tool for detecting “bot armies.” Musk also conducted a survey in which 87% of almost half a million users voted for the creation of such a site. The billionaire urged mass media employees who are dissatisfied with this initiative to write articles with arguments against the creation of the platform.
Elon Musk often criticizes journalists for allegedly false and biased coverage of events related to the affairs of his companies. In particular, he stated that accidents involving Teslas attract more press attention than accidents involving cars of other brands. Twitter is also in the headlines a lot these days – articles mostly about the launch of the Twitter Blue subscription, which initially caused an invasion of bots, and now has taken away the blue ticks from all previously verified users (although not without exceptions).
It is likely that the new site, “super application” and Musk’s chatbot will be combined in one “real” project of the billionaire, but it seems that he has not yet fully understood what he plans to create. He did not provide any details about the launch dates, only later mysteriously added:
“Don’t criticize, and you won’t criticize.”
Among Musk’s other new posts on Twitter, there is some more interesting information. In one, he flashed his alternate account, allegedly belonging to his son. Quite often, very strange (sometimes with sexual undertones) publications appear there – and it is unlikely that a two-year-old child could write them. Here are some examples:
BREAKING: Elon Musk has allegedly revealed a secret alt account where he pretends to be a child version of himself posting a lot of bizarre sexual content pic.twitter.com/HaItr9Cl31
— The Serfs (@theserfstv) April 25, 2023
