“Death Threats” by NBC News Disinformation Reporter Ben Collins

Ben Collins, the controversial NBC News “disinformation” reporter who was once suspended from covering Elon Musk after mocking the tycoon after its acquisition of Twittertook to social media to state that he was “irrevocably depressed and anxious” at the “death threats” he was receiving over his complaint.

Collins posted several articles on the Twitter-like microblogging app Bluesky on Wednesday and Thursday that shed light on his emotional state as he plans to “turn off” his journalism career.

Last month, he announced to Bluesky that he would be leaving the profession early next year.

The Post has reached out to Collins and NBC News for comment.

A concerned Bluesky user asked Collins what he would do, writing: “I’m asking because I’m a healthcare worker, also about to throw in the towel.”

“I don’t know yet,” Collins wrote in a response he posted Thursday. “There are people who want me to write a book, but I would only deliver a bunch of sad poems.”

Another Bluesky user, Molly Knight, wrote: “Hi Ben, how are you doing with all the strangers driving you crazy? Just checking in.”

NBC News published a story by Collins on Monday in which he cited a text message believed to be from a fired Trump White House aide advising Musk to buy Twitter as a “declaration of war against the “Globalist American Empire”.

The text messages that were sent to Musk laid out a “road map” that the billionaire has allegedly followed, including ongoing attacks against the Anti-Defamation League.

Musk and X, as Twitter is now known, have been committed to the ADL after the civil rights group accused the social media platform of not doing enough suppress anti-Semitic content and hate speech.

The Post has reached out to Musk for comment.

Earlier this week, Collins also hinted at her work situation, writing: “I got fired once and had nothing to do in New York for three weeks and it was probably the best time of my life.”

Knight asked Collins, “How do you let the death threats and other hateful things that are said to you every day not bother you?”

“Oh, I absolutely have, I am deeply and irrevocably depressed and anxious,” Collins replied.

In another post this week, Collins wrote: “Honestly, realizing that this all has an end date next year has been so much easier.”

“I just don’t care anymore,” he wrote.

On September 14, Collins wrote to Bluesky: “Unless things change dramatically, I will be leaving journalism early next year.”

“What happens next, I’m not sure,” he wrote. “I have no skills or family connections or money or anything.”

“But I’ve been working on my white whale stories to wrap it up, big unanswered questions. The first one is out tomorrow.”

Collins did not write a story for Sept. 15, according to his NBC News author page.

The last story he ran before this week’s report on Musk was a May 22 dispatch about a fake image of an explosion at the Pentagon that went viral on X.

The Post has reached out to NBC News and Collins for comment.

Last year, Collins was pulled from the air by NBC and MSNBC after he dissed Musk in a series of social media posts despite being warned by management to refrain from doing so.

At the time, Musk suspended several reporters whom he had accused of “doxxing” him. reporting his decision to ban an account that tracked his private jet flights.