This just lets him blast the media and deflect from criticisms, while fully avoiding the fact that he and his companies have made very large errors in the past

This just lets him blast the media and deflect from criticisms, while fully avoiding the fact that he and his companies have made very large errors in the past too, granted nobody sane is looking at him for news of world affairs. Generally this is the standard playbook. “Look my <hand waived definition of enemy> is fallible once, so must always be fallible when criticizing me , but they’re trustworthy when it’s good stuff” This isn’t to excuse the AP. They really messed up, but Elon hamming it up is his usual disingenuous self.