Chamath: “I Was Completely Brainwashed by Mainstream Media Like Everyone Else” “It’s about the truth. There was a moment where I was basically like everybody else and pretty brainwashed. My media diet was very much the same as everybody else’s. I read the New York Times and the Wall... Street Journal.” Source: The Katie Miller Podcast Chamath Palihapitiyashow more

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Public ENEMY number one

I religiously read NYT and WSJ thru pandemic. My turning point was watching all the quarantine rules go out the window for BLM riots. Hypocrisy was appalling.

X is the way to break out of mainstream media's fake world

Chamath: their sole job is to disseminate truth. Them:

Have to admit this but my turning point was when Biden admin didn't invite Elon and Tesla to the EV Summit he held and then publicly announced that Ford's CEO was leading the race in EVs. smh

𝕏 is the place to be

@KatieMiller So was I too at one point. I actually believed Paul Krugman in 2016 when he wrote in the NYTimes that Trump would tank the economy. Just because it was in the NYTimes. I was that gullible. “Oh. He won a noble prize” Now I see through all that fake sh*t

Respect to him for admitting that

@KatieMiller We watched David Sacks redpill the man. Glorious!

“I Was Completely Brainwashed by Mainstream Media Like Everyone Else” 🤣🤣🤣

"None but ourselves can free our minds" Bob Marley

The propaganda has even had an effect on kids.. I posted this to my TT back in 2024, and it’s shockingly accurate! 👇👇

WoW-Scott Adams drift is ☕️ ☕️ percolating through the membrainless wall between those that know and those that imagine they know. Every Democratic candidate Every Republican candidate Every Libertarian candidate Every Green candidate Every citizen of California should read

Even sophisticated investors can be shaped by mainstream media. Chamath’s admission serves as a reminder that critical thinking and independent analysis are essential, regardless of the perceived authority of the source. It is noteworthy that Chamath cites specific sources, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, which demonstrates that he is not referring to questionable media but to recognized and respected publications. This underscores that the issue does not lie in the source of information itself, but in how habitual news consumption and a lack of critical analysis can shape one’s thinking.

When he says “everyone else” he means leftist morons. 🤔

What’s funny is this guy, and Elon, most conservatives… retweet shit that’s 10x as misleading as MSM. Sometimes they get it right but there are millions of people who used to watch MSM and have SOME connection to reality, that are now totally and hopelessly divorced from it

Happened to me, too. It was hard to admit at first, but I am so glad I figured it out before it got worse. Mine was the "fine people on both sides" I went back and watched both press conferences and then looked up the complete transcript. I was arguing with someone at the time and was about to show them! What really made me so angry? The NYT bills itself a place for educated people so here I am assuming they wouldn't lie. They wouldn't want educated people to look stupid. That's what I figured. Ha. Haha. Ha. Ha. Wrong!!! There is nothing worse than looking like a complete effing idiot knowing the "paper of record" set your ass up to look like an imbecile!

Once you see it you can’t unsee

Then he became a billionaire and saw which party gave him tax cuts

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Spoiler alert: He's still brainwashed by the popular media today.

The mainstream media is desperate now that their hold has been broken

The Media is more dangerous than nuclear bomb

On a positive note, if you can ever get someone who still trusts the MSM to genuinely start questioning it, it usually doesn’t take them long to see through the narrative. Once the first inconsistency or hypocrisy hits like the BLM riots vs. lockdown rules, or watching an unfiltered Trump rally instead of the edited clips, the whole house of cards starts crumbling fast. Many people share that exact experience: a few weeks or months of real digging, and they go from “this is reliable” to “how did I ever buy this?” Chamath’s story is just one more example of how powerful that initial crack can be.

If you read both sides you at leave had some appreciation that there are 2 points of view. You can watch CNN and Fox and just draw a line down the middle - but appreciate there’s topics both ignore too. 😞

Happy to say many people are starting to wake up and realize they were taken for a ride by Mainstream Media!