I hasn’t taken ELON MUSK long to put his MARK on Twitter!
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By Mike Allen · Oct 30, 2022 |
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It's been just two days since Elon Musk officially bought Twitter. Already, the billionaire businessman is using the platform to spread speculation to his 112 million followers — about the biggest U.S. news of the weekend, Axios' Sara Fischer reports.
My biggest fear...
- Why it matters: Musk is instantly imprinting himself on his acquisition — including spreading misinformation on the powerful platform in just the way critics had expected.
It didn’t take him long!
Early today, Musk cited a widely-discredited website that implied the brutal attack on Speaker Pelosi's husband, Paul, wasn't carried out by an unhinged far-right blogger — but rather was linked to an anti-LGTBQ "theory" about a skirmish at a local bar.
- "There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye," Musk said in response to a tweet from Hillary Clinton.
Clinton had tweeted a Los Angeles Times article about the suspect, David DePape, 42, who spread QAnon and other far-right conspiracies online and added:
Musk linked to an article from the Santa Monica Observer, a website known for years for publishing false stories.
What a surprise!
The Santa Monica site went down early this morning shortly after the tweet was published — apparently due to an influx of traffic from Musk’s tweet.
Money! Power!! Fascism!!!
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