Musk’s rule of X, in contrast, stands in opposition to the idea that anyone should read any news in the first place, or serious work on public policy issues for that matter. This is a war on the human intellect, distinct from and in many ways more sinister than liberal bias or censorship. Musk does not usually suppress knowledge or facts, but denigrates the entire idea that anyone can live in a universe where knowledge or facts matter, and seeks to reduce the prominence of anyone who would be naive enough to think they should.