On October 24, 2024, Elon Musk took to X (formerly Twitter) and tweeted, “The Atlantic is an evil publication,” quoting the tweet of Shaun Maguire, who criticized the publication for making outrageous claims about Donald Trump in their latest Hitler Hit piece.
Following his tweet, an old photo of Laurene Powell Jobs hanging out with convict Ghislaine Maxwell in bathing suits resurfaced on the platform.
You might wonder how they are related, but interestingly, Laurene Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, is the majority stakeholder of The Atlantic publication.
Back in 2021, the very same photo went viral after The Atlantic published a controversial article, “The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic,” while the sex-trafficking trial of former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was going on parallelly.
Every time I see the ever so highly respected rag of a magazine called "The Atlantic" write something my brain automatically goes to this.
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) October 23, 2024
Laurene Powell Jobs pic.twitter.com/9cFJstbgUt
Written by Kaitlyn Tiffany, the article piece claimed that child sex trafficking was a fake epidemic and connected the rising concerns to conspiracy theories like QAnon rather than to real-life examples like Epstein and Josh Duggar.
Following the article’s criticism, an image of Laurene Powell Jobs and Ghislaine Maxwell in bathing suits laughing together on a couch went viral. Many claimed that they were besties, justifying the reason behind the article.
Now that The Atlantic has published yet another controversial story, netizens are pointing out the ownership of the publication.
One wrote, “Laurene Powell Jobs owns the Atlantic don’t forget. This is her with Maxwell. They are all Epstein people….They are all purchased. They ran the story because they are told to.“
The Hitler article piece by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic receives criticism!
As the Presidential Election nears, more and more controversial pieces are coming out, trying to tarnish the candidates’ names.
While the journalists and publications are running those stories, the public remains confused about what to trust and what not to.
One example is that The Atlantic ran a story where they made a claim that Trump denigrated a dead soldier, Vanessa Guillén.
In the article, they allegedly claimed that former President Donald Trump said, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fu*king Mexian. Don’t pay it.” Here, he is supposedly talking about Vanessa, whose funeral cost Trump promised her mother to pay.
The Atlantic is an evil publication https://t.co/OAEsCNor98
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 23, 2024
Following the alleged story, Vanessa’s sister, Mayra, quoted the tweet of The Atlantic as she wrote, “Wow. I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics-hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members.“
“President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today,” she added.
Seeing Mayra debunk the claims in the controversial piece of The Atlantic, Trump supporter Shaun Maguire uploaded Mayra’s statement and called the reporting of the publication an evil one.
Later, X CEO Elon Musk retweeted his tweet, saying, “The Atlantic is an evil publication.” Given Elon’s large fan following, the tweet has over 12 million views, and Trump supporters are actively bashing the publication.
One commented, “The Atlantic has to be the worst of the fake news.” While another wrote, “Will they ever give up this desperate and unhinged comparison to Hitler?! they really don’t have any other cards to play I suppose.“
