Musk tweets at Hillary Clinton, suggesting conspiracy surrounding Paul Pelosi attack
Elon Musk on Sunday responded to a tweet by Hillary Clinton tying an assault on Paul Pelosi to Republican rhetoric by espousing a conspiracy theory surrounding the circumstances of the incident.
A 42-year-old man allegedly broke into the San Francisco home of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her husband, Paul Pelosi, and assaulted him with a hammer, leading him to undergo surgery for a skull fracture.
Clinton lambasted the GOP while sharing a Los Angeles Times article that reported the suspect echoed QAnon conspiracy theories.
“The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories,” Clinton tweeted on Saturday afternoon.
“It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result,” Clinton continued. “As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow.”
On Sunday morning, just a few days after he took over the social media platform, Musk tweeted at Clinton by sharing an article detailing an unfounded, right-wing conspiracy about the circumstances of the attack.
“There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye,” Musk wrote.
There is no evidence to back up the claims made in the article by a website known for repeatedly publishing stories that are false, including one in 2016 that claimed Clinton had died during that year’s presidential campaign and that a body double was sent to debate then-GOP candidate Donald Trump.
After taking over the platform, Musk quickly made moves to determine content decisions as many of the Tesla CEO’s critics express worry about the spread of misinformation on the platform under more relaxed content moderation policies.
The specifics of future content moderation on Twitter under Musk’s ownership remain unclear, and he has vowed to implement significant changes to the platform, including layoffs and the lifting of lifelong bans, including that of Trump.
“Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!” Musk wrote in a statement posted on Thursday.
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Musk tweets at Hillary Clinton suggesting conspiracy surrounding Paul Pelosi attack https://t.co/widIG3PwZw pic.twitter.com/b5RHBxzTyB
— The Hill (@thehill) October 30, 2022
Here's your day 2 of twitter not "descending into a hellscape" as the new owner suggests to the former Secretary of State that the Speaker of the House's husband just might be gay and drunk and that's why a man tried to kill him with a hammer.
I think that we're done here? pic.twitter.com/Yba4fKQKEj
— Deadpeul 🐕🌊🌊🌊 (@deadpeul) October 30, 2022
Elon spreading disinformation about an assassination attempt on the Speaker of the House has really gotta be helping reel in those advertising dollars.
— Operative_X (@OperativeXRay) October 30, 2022
I don't know Elon, are you sure it's really Hillary you're replying to?https://t.co/g4zQ9ilF0G
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) October 30, 2022
The use of a racial slur on Twitter increased 500% in the 12 hours after Musk’s deal was finalized
(The Network Contagion Research Institute, NYT)
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) October 29, 2022
Henchman of a regime that currently makes it a felony to use the W-word with regard to the war in Ukraine bleats about "ideological dictatorship"
(But hey, at least Dima is taking time out from Jew-baiting Zelensky and posting genocidal fantasies about Ukraine) https://t.co/unGuHjrKHj— Cathy Young 🇺🇦 (@CathyYoung63) October 29, 2022
Three days after Elon Musk purchased Twitter, he posted baseless allegations about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi. The tweet on Sunday raised questions about how, or if, Musk will combat misinformation and hate speech on the platform. https://t.co/ygT0jXDou4
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2022
Elon Musk deletes tweet linking conspiracy theory to Paul Pelosi attack https://t.co/RiSxHwm07g pic.twitter.com/UnLzdUvEBt
— The Hill (@thehill) October 30, 2022
He deleted the tweet because he knew it was wrong and was clearly embarrassed, but can’t apologize or even acknowledge that and so needs to lash out and make puerile jokes. So Trumpian. https://t.co/do0FpZIoVx
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 31, 2022
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