On New Year’s Day, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas. Tesla founder Elon Musk posted on X that the explosion was not because of a defect with the truck.
Instead, the truck reportedly carried “firework mortars and camp fuel canisters” and the explosion appears to have been intentional.
“We have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself,” Musk posted.
But the Associated Press framed the incident as though the truck exploded by itself. It also implied that the truck caught fire and then exploded, instead of exploding and then catching fire, which anyone who saw the footage could quickly deduce.
The AP post on X was quickly “ratioed” and then hit with a brutal community note. […]
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