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From my perspective, articles said he made anti-Semitic statements but I personally struggled to find the tweets themselves anywhere within the articles. Many people would read the headline, and take away that Musk is an anti-Semite without going further. For those who click the article they would still struggle to find out what exactly was said.

The picture you get of him by listening to him directly is so different than how he is portrayed by these media organizations.

You can see it in the this particular case that has everyone calling him an "antisemite". Here is the full exchange:

musk: "You have said the actual truth"

musk: "The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat. It is not right and needs to stop."

whatsupfranks: "Yes, but this is not fair to say or truthful to say that ‘Jewish communities’ promote dialectical hatred towards white. Say what you want about the ADL, but don’t generalize the Jewish community."

musk: "You right that this does not extend to all Jewish communities, but it is also not just limited to ADL"

musk: "And, at the risk of being repetitive, I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind."

Reading this exchange, it's clear to me that musk does not hate jews. However, these media orgs took only the first message out of context and declared that musk hates jews.

He has had other exchanges with the president of Israel and leadership of the ADL, but those have also been conveniently left out.

Trump is a different story, I don't really know much about that because I'm intentionally tuned out of politics.

I don't think that is the case at all. The word 'however' could have been used just as well here.

"We ran a good race, but finished second". The 'but' does not imply a negation of all success, but instead a lack of achievement of all successes.

I speak French, it's effectively the same. "We went for 100%, but in the end got 90%". "On voulais 100%, mais a la fin on a gagne 90%". Presumably the end goal of the space ship was not to explode in space, but to also return as well.

It all comes down to an expectation that the rocket was to do more. If said with a simple "and", it's unclear whether that was the end goal or not. I suspect you're perhaps reading mal-intent where there is really none.

> "It reached space and exploded seconds later.""

This is actually confusing to me, was it supposed to explode seconds later? Was this actually a test of a ICBM and not a spaceship?

Further, is this statement actually not a bit too neutral? Almost to the point of not acknowledging that yeah, this was not 100% success. It's almost a bias in the other way to not even acknowledge that this was not an intended outcome.

(A) Could we say: "It reached space, exploded seconds later, and was a complete success for SpaceX."

(B) Or could we say: "It reached space, but exploded second later; nonetheless a big success for SpaceX."

I believe what you may have inferred was something more like: (C) "It reached space, but exploded seconds later; a complete disaster for SpaceX"

Your valuation of whether the 'but' is a negative judgement or a matter of fact that the full goal was not achieved, I believe is your bias.

Your example is actually spot on: "I had a beautiful wedding, but the walls were yellow." Did the walls being yellow make the wedding a disaster? No, but did the yellow walls somehow lead to a less than optimal result? Yes.

In the first statement: "I had a beautiful wedding. The walls were yellow", it is almost misleading because the statement is withholding the idea that the yellow walls were a bad thing.

It's up to the reader to decide how bad the walls being yellow were. Some readers may decide that the wedding was completely gashed, others may decide that it was 98% great.

Another example to consider: "I had a beautiful wedding, but the cake was not enough." vs "I had a beautiful wedding, the cake was not enough". The latter is not as clear, was the cake just so good that it ran out? The first one, implies that there was a greater expectation. Which goes to my point, it's a big omission if you leave out the idea there was a greater expectation.