Bravo, Jeff Bezos!”
That was the congratulatory message Elon Musk posted on X, the platform he bought for $44 billion in 2022 and subsequently turned into a pro-Trump bullhorn. Musk’s “bravo” was in response to Bezos’ shocking announcement that he was taking his media outlet, the Washington Post, in a Trumpian direction as well.
The Post’s opinion section will now advance Bezos’ “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” Anyone not on board with this “significant shift” can take a hike, Bezos seemed to tell Post employees, in a note he also shared on X (2/26/25).
That was Wednesday morning. By evening, Bezos was dining with President Trump.
Visit us @ [email protected] for all the latest news on the topics of astroturfing, propaganda and disinformation.
The WaPo was establishment propaganda even before JeffyB bought them, so really all that’s happening now is that he’s saying the quiet part out loud.
Nah, it’s gone from neoliberal establishment propaganda to fascist propaganda. While both are awful, the latter is MUCH worse.
Expect them to for example change their take on cops from “the only way to stop cops from constantly murdering black people is to throw money at cops” to "actually, cops murdering black people is always justified, so let’s give the cops even more money and also all the military hardware they want! (Only) Blue Lives Matter!”