Two weeks ago, on April 13, 2026, a brand-new anonymous X account (@HansFreemanNow) quietly dropped what I think is one of the most explosive leaks of the year: printed WhatsApp receipts from senior journalists at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Then on April 16, the same account returned with even cleaner, expanded versions of the chats — plus a direct challenge to the NYT after they called it “fake.”
I do not think this is some random troll. This is an insider-level dump that names names, quotes verbatim, and pulls back the curtain on exactly how a powerful faction of legacy media really views Elon Musk.
Here are the key receipts, compiled straight from
’s full thread (still live here:
and follow-up
- Kirsten Grind (NYT) to Teddy Schleifer (NYT): “Because he is the beginning of the end for humanity, he is something like the Antichrist.” Strategy: “make the billionaires fight amongst themselves and thus dismantle their board of directors… if we make the rich fight and play on their egos, we finally win the end of such a detestable person.”
- Kirsten Grind to Eric Lipton (NYT): “We’re going to bring down the wealthiest man on earth. Are you with me?” Lipton: “of course.”
- Emily Glazer (WSJ) to Dana Mattioli (WSJ): Glazer boasts about unmasking a “despicable being” through “ink and paper.” Mattioli asks if she’ll write another report against the “scoundrel.” Glazer replies she’s working on befriending Musk’s inner circle for more dirt — and has a meeting with “individuals from Venezuela who intend to take some kind of action against him in the region.” She even invites Mattioli to interview the mother of Musk’s latest child (number 15) to “firsthand learn what a bad person he is.”
- Ryan Mac (NYT) to Emily Glazer: “I forgot to tell you not to use Signal anymore please. That is where they are spying on us from.” Glazer confirms she knew they were being spied on.
- Emily Glazer and her Mom: Mom: “Please take care of yourself… You should call your friends from Russia.” Glazer: “Simply be in a state of maximum alert. The man with the money has no scruples…” Mom insists: “It’s better to leave the country… travel to Venezuela or Russia… That man is out of his mind.” Glazer: “No… Just stay very alert.”
- Joe Palazzolo (WSJ) to Emily Glazer: Warns her Musk and his people are “very bad people” and “the same devil,” capable of attacking her or her family. References the “Texla issue” that only made their capital increase.
Hans Freeman’s own commentary deserves attention: “You may have suspected the MSM had an agenda. It’s worse than you might imagine. Taking someone down trumps truth-seeking. It’s personal, not professional.” He directly calls out the NYT’s denial, noting they claimed knowledge of private chats they shouldn’t have access to, and he dares them to sue so the receipts can be examined in a deposition.
Hans Freeman’s own commentary deserves attention: “You may have suspected the MSM had an agenda. It’s worse than you might imagine. Taking someone down trumps truth-seeking. It’s personal, not professional.”
Media Blackout: The Silence Is Deafening
As of April 28, 2026 two full weeks after the original April 13 drop and twelve days after the April 16 follow-up with even clearer receipts not a single legacy media outlet has published a single word about these WhatsApp leaks.
No New York Times. No Wall Street Journal. No CNN, Washington Post, Fox, Reuters, AP, or any of the usual “fact-check” sites. No on-the-record statements, no defensive columns, no “we investigated and here’s why it’s fake” pieces. The only responses have been a couple of quick “these are fabricated” replies on X from the named journalists themselves.
The story remains 100 percent confined to the very platform these reporters love to criticize. The silence is not just loud it is damning.
I think if the tables were turned, and these were leaks of Elon’s conversations, this story would explode internationally!
Elon quote-posted the original thread with the perfect reaction: “This is super weird if true.”
And then the predictable legacy response: instant “Fake!” declarations, Community Notes, and institutional circling of the wagons.
This is exactly why Elon’s words cut so deep:
“Once they realize that legacy media lies, they never forget it.”
Elon Musk
It’s also textbook Gell-Mann Amnesia. This is the syndrome where you know one section of the newspaper is full of errors and propaganda about a subject you understand deeply, yet you’re still expected to trust every other page (and every denial) as gospel.
We’ve watched it for years: Russia collusion, Hunter Biden laptop as “Russian disinfo,” lab-leak censorship, Twitter Files suppression, and relentless slanted coverage of Elon that treats every success as a scandal. Once that pattern is burned into your brain, their “these chats are fabricated” statements don’t land as credible rebuttals, instread they land as page-two damage control after years of front-page lies.
Whether every single word in these screenshots is 100% verbatim or slightly amplified doesn’t even matter at this point. The tone, the strategy sessions, the paranoia, the personal venom, and the explicit goal of “bringing down the wealthiest man on earth” perfectly match what we’ve seen in their public reporting for years.
The NYT and WSJ are not practicing journalism. This is ideological warfare disguised as news.
Legacy media doesn’t see Elon Musk as a subject to report on fairly. They see him as an existential threat that must be dismantled by any means necessary.
They hate that Elon is the genius accelerating multi-planetary life, sustainable energy, brain-machine interfaces, Starlink connectivity, and an actually open public square on X.
For my subscribers who have been paying attention: this leak is certainly not a shock, its merely a confirmation.
The mask has slipped. The receipts are out there. And once people realize legacy media lies, they never forget it.
Demand the raw exports. Cross-check everything yourself. But never again grant these institutions the benefit of the doubt they forfeited long ago.
The future belongs to the builders, not the lying press.
Stay sharp. Keep building.
This is my full, unfiltered breakdown for my readers only.
Addendum:
(Above) Kirsten Grind (NYT) to Teddy Schleifer: ‘Because he is the beginning of the end for humanity, he is something like the Antichrist.’
She then explains that the strategy is to hit him in the ego with negative press — while admitting it actually makes him more important.
Straight from the printed WhatsApp receipts dropped by @HansFreemanNow
Glazer also reveals she’s working on a strategy to befriend Musk’s inner circle to gather more information, while the two journalists trash him as a ‘despicable being,’ ‘scoundrel,’ and ‘very ugly man’ — all while praising each other for ‘unmasking’ him through ‘ink and paper.’
Straight from the printed WhatsApp receipts dropped by @HansFreemanNow.
Glazer warns: ‘Since that man won the presidency, we gained a very powerful enemy.’
Her mom urges her to call ‘friends from Russia’ and insists: ‘It’s better to leave the country for now, travel to Venezuela or Russia… That man is out of his mind.’ She adds that Musk ‘has no scruples’ and could harm her or the family.
Glazer replies: ‘They can’t touch me because they know I know all their secrets’ and tells her mom to stay in ‘a state of maximum alert.’
Also shows her boss ordering her to stop all publications against Musk and the president.”
Straight from the printed WhatsApp receipts dropped by @HansFreemanNow.
‘So the strategy will be to try to make the billionaires fight amongst themselves and thus dismantle their board of directors.’
They discuss having Emily talk to potential buyers on the side, absolute confidentiality, and changing strategy because ‘by giving them so much press, we are actually making them go viral.’ Includes complaints that ‘they laugh in our faces’ and a map of the Princeton, NJ area at the bottom.”
Straight from the printed WhatsApp receipts dropped by @HansFreemanNow.
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