Fuel on the Fire

An Ominous Preview of Propaganda to Come

- by Kevin Necessary

In case anyone questions how inaccurate Musk’s tweets have been about the catastrophic LA fires, I went to a source even he couldn’t dispute: Grok, the AI chatbot for Twitter/X itself, which he loves to promote.

And I asked Grok if Musk’s tweets have been inaccurate.

Here’s how Musk’s own AI tool responded:

Just as Zuckerberg is getting rid of fact checking, something tells me Musk won’t allow Grok to provide answers this honest for long.

Hannah Arendt: “The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.”

Day 44 — January 13, 2025

The New Yorker released a report showing the “unprecedented” ends to which the Trump administration is going to ensure that their controversial nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, gets confirmed. As the headline and opening sentences summarize, Hegseth supporters have “intimidated potential witnesses and suppressed the FBI background check.”

Kevin’s Commentary — on our most viral cartoon yet…

Welcome back, friends, to another behind the scenes look at my cartooning process. Let’s take a stand for free speech and an independent press, and check out the latest batch of rough sketches.