Opinion: No, Elon Musk. Newspapers don’t just copy the Internet. They’re democracy’s backbone

Twitter induces a strange sort of brain rot: The more time you spend on it, the more important it seems than it really is. — AP

Elon Musk might know about a lot of things — electric cars, space flight, digging tunnels. But Twitter’s increasingly erratic new owner keeps proving time and again that he’s shockingly ignorant when it comes to journalism.

“Newspapers just search the Internet and print it out,” he tweeted Tuesday afternoon, attributing the inanity to “SJM” — his son Saxon James Musk, whom he quotes occasionally in his feed.