What the hell is happening.

If you look at every single news outlet, they all have headlines that say Elon Musk is taking over the government and "hacking" the systems and stealing money. Or they say he's stopping social security and medicare payments. It's causing people to freak out and I don't understand how it's legal to lie in such a way that makes retirees and seniors fear for their survival. There are seniors all over posting saying the news says they won't get their social security check because Elon Musk is stopping payments and they don't know how they're going to live.

It's got to be criminal, what the news is doing.