Twitter’s new ‘Head Twit’ just showed the world how gullible and malicious he really is.
The tweet is still visible on this link but you can’t read any of the responses two of which are included below.
The Awful Truth: Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute Early Friday
As SF's gay bars closed at 2 am, two gay men met in a bar and went home together. Happens every night in the City b…
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By Rachel Sharp
Elon Musk has shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory on Twitter about what transpired the night of the violent hammer attack on Paul Pelosi – just days after he took over the social media platform on the promise of stripping away content moderation.
San Francisco Police chief William Scott said in a press conference that the attack was “intentional” and “not a random act”.
Paul and Nancy Pelosi
Police sources told KTVU that the assailant had a hit list of other lawmakers he also planned to target.
A search of Mr DePape’s online history has uncovered a deep-rooted obsession with extreme right-wing conspiracy theories including debunked claims about the Covid-19 vaccine and QAnon.
In the weeks leading up to the violent assault on Mr Pelosi, the pace of the posts ramped up, with Mr DePape posting several times a day. Topics include Holocaust denialism, false claims that Covid-19 vaccines are lethal, venerating alt-right figure Jordan Peterson, and his support for Donald Trump to run in 2024 with Tulsi Gabbard as his running mate.
A post from 23 August on his alleged blog suggests he was radicalised by GamerGate, a misogynist campaign against feminism within the video game industry that gave rise to far-right reactionary movements among young men, parallel to the emergence of QAnon and Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy.
I expect users, followed by advertisers to flee Twitter in droves, as it descends into being the go to place for the latest nonsense conspiracy theories from Q-Anon and Elon Musk.
UPDATE:
#Pelosigaylover is now trending on Twitter in the top spot.
What a sewer.
Musk sent the since-deleted tweet, which linked to a story on a website that has a history of publishing false information, to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Musk’s tweet had more than 24,000 retweets and 86,000 likes late Sunday morning before he deleted it.
By Julianne McShane
Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, tweeted out a since-deleted, unfounded and anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory Sunday morning about the attack on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from a website that has a history of publishing false information.
Musk responded to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she tweeted out an L.A. Times story about how the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi, David DePape, spread far-right conspiracy theories.
