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‘The Office’ Alum Rainn Wilson Pushes Back On MSNBC Host For Claims Donald Trump & Elon Musk Fueled Mistrust In Traditional Media
Rainn Wilson had MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on his Soul Boom podcast, where they discussed why people distrusted traditional media.
Stephanie Ruhle and Rainn WilsonYouTube / SoulBoom The host of The 11th Hour noted that people “losing trust is not by accident” and it was “by design.” Ruhle said Donald Trump’s administration is making a “concerted effort to destroy the media because the media is the last line of defense holding power accountable.” Ruhle also mentioned Elon Musk’s tactics, which aim to encourage people to “leave traditional media” and move to X, describing it as “a bastion of misinformation where there is no fact-checking.” The actor told Ruhle that his podcast guests have cited their “toxic relationship to social media” and turning off the news for their mental health benefit, saying, “I don’t go on social media, and I don’t read news articles, and I’m raising bees and growing poppies and washing my dishes and meditating and my life is so much better and richer for it.
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