Thank you for the editorial “Despicable disinformation” and other articles about Elon Musk in the March 23 Ideas Lab.

We live in precarious times, with the presidency, both Houses and the Supreme Court being controlled by one party. In addition, that party has been extremely successful in controlling the media along with numerous podcasts and extreme right-wing radio spewing out disinformation and conspiracy theories.

Recently, The Atlantic editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently added to a White House Signal app communication (using it in itself a security violation) that allowed him to hear war plans about the attack on Houthis in Yemen. When Goldberg exposed this serious security breach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth immediately attacked The Atlantic.

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With President Donald Trump surrounding himself with incompetent loyalists, and tearing apart our democratic institutions, there will surely be many more incidents as least as serious as this one. It’s imperative that our traditional media continue to write editorials, fact check those in power and call out the lies from other extreme media sources. That’s why I have a bumper sticker on my car that reads, “Support a Robust Free Press.”

Jerry Fredrickson, Greenfield

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