So there's this concept in psychology called "projection" that can sometimes be useful in understanding why, for example, someone who paid $44 billion to own a media company is insisting that every other media company wants to control what you know.

There's also this concept (this time from the realm of journalism) called "editorial judgment" which explains how all media outlets are always making decisions about what information gets prioritized and what is worth covering...which is distinct from "censorship."

And there's also a very long history of fascist propagandists depicting themselves as "brave truth tellers" who "the (((controlled))) media" are trying to silence by not platforming their racist and genocidal ideas. https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1589481876808675328?s=46&t=C2gZzA43ichKcYalBXTUZQ

Unbeknownst to people like Elon, there are these centuries-old disciplines in areas called "the social sciences" and "the humanities" in which people generate useful knowledge about the complicated ways in which human societies have worked and continue to work.

But Elon wouldn't want to actually engage with any people with expertise in those areas, because then his fragile little self might be at risk of catching "the woke mind virus" or whatever it is he calls "peer reviewed scholarship in the humanities and social sciences."

Anyone with a basic grasp of social science and/or the humanities would get the concept of "subjectivity," which is that every human views the world from a perspective that's been shaped by life experiences that are both distinctive & patterned. There is no" view from nowhere."

Thus, when Elon, a billionaire raised in apartheid South Africa, tells us that he's just a neutral arbiter and has absolutely no biases or self-interest at stake in what he does with his media company...most informed observers just sigh and nod their heads.

The way to combat the real problems of confirmation bias and the always limited nature of information we have access to is to be self-aware about how one's subjectivity might distort (or positively inform) one's observations and analysis of the world. And nothing says "I'm self-aware" like surrounding yourself with a team of like-minded yes-men (and maybe a few women?) from exactly the same socio-economic circles as yourself.