Elon Musk, new owner of Twitter, tweets baseless, anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack
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Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, tweeted a deleted, baseless and anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory Sunday morning about the assault on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from a website with a history of publishing. false information.
Musk replied to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she tweeted out a LA Times story how suspect in Paul Pelosi attack, David DePapespreading far-right conspiracy theories.
Clinton tweeted link to that story with the message: “The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hateful and deranged conspiracy theories. It’s shocking, but not surprising. , that violence is the result of citizenship, we must take responsibility for our actions. words and subsequent actions.”
“There is a slight possibility that there may be more to this story than eye sight,” Musk wrote to Clinton at 8:15 a.m. Sunday, which links to a story published on a right-wing website called the Santa Monica Observer that questioned the circumstances of the Pelosi attack, according to an archived version of the story. (The site was inaccessible late on Sunday morning.)
Musk deleted the tweet early Sunday afternoon. As of late Sunday morning, it had more than 24,000 retweets and more than 86,000 likes, and quickly gained more attention.
Media Bias Fact Check Site / Fact Check price Santa Monica Observer as a “questionable source” based on “the frequent publication of false and misleading information and the poor use of sources.”
Media Bias/Fact Check said the website’s article about the Pelosi attack “appears to be fake and defamatory.”
Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.
The Santa Monica Observer also ran other fake stories that falsely reported that former Secretary of State Clinton had died in the September 11, 2001 attacks and had used a dual body ever since, and that Ye , the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has been assigned a non-existent position in the Interior Department under former President Donald Trump.
The publisher of the site, David Ganezer, unsuccessfully running for Santa Monica City Council in 2010 and in 1988, according to the Santa Monica Daily Press. He is currently a registered Republican, voting records show.
Musk’s tweet just appeared days after his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter was completed. Musk has said that he will loosen the rules about what kind of speech is allowed on the platform. That oath has motivated concern that the changes may drive users and advertisers away from the site.
DePape attacked Pelosi, 82, with a hammer after broke into their home in California early Friday. Two sources told NBC News the suspect was looking for the speaker of the House of Representatives, who was in Washington, DC at the time.
Police arrived after Pelosi called 911 when the suspect was not searching.
According to Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi suffered a skull fracture and serious injuries to her right arm and hand. He underwent successful surgery and is expected to make a full recovery, Hammill added on Friday.
Police said DePape will be charged with attempted murder, among other charges. Officials said they were still working to determine the motive for the attack.
Robert Rueca, public information officer for the San Francisco Police Department, told NBC News that the incident report is not being released at this time due to the ongoing investigation, and that Pelosi and the suspect are the people. was only in the house at the time of the incident.
