Hyderabad: TED head Chris Anderson on Tuesday wrote an open letter to billionaire Elon Musk who owns the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) asking him to follow the fairness doctrine in his posts.
"There are numerous journalistic principles that matter — Grok can summarise them quite nicely. But there’s one in particular that’s been troubling me. It’s the fairness doctrine. The one that says that before you publish savagely critical claims about an individual or an institution, you reach out to them for their side of the story. After all, just possibly, you may have missed a key fact or two that would change how people assess what has happened," Anderson said.
Calling Elon Musk the "century's single most influential writer, Anderson told him that some of his recent posts could literally get someone killed. "When you tell hundreds of millions of people that someone should be hanged or jailed for outrageous crimes against humanity, just possibly you should first sound out what those who know those people really well would say about them," Chris Anderson added.