Speaker 1: In response to the home invasion attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi,
Elon Musk, fresh off of buying Twitter, tweeted a bonkers conspiracy theory from the Santa
monica Observer, a paper publication which previously reported that Hillary Clinton died
before the 2016 election and a body double was debating Donald Trump.
Elon Musk tweeted such a conspiracy theory that claims or suggests that the home invader
was actually Paul Pelosi's gay lover.
Completely baseless and ultimately deleted that.
This is the owner of Twitter that did this article about this on CBS News.
Elon Musk Tweets and deletes link to article Pushing Unfounded Conspiracy Theory About
Paul Pelosi attack and it reads Elon Musk Sunday tweeted and deleted a link to an article
pushing an unfounded conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi.
The tweet from Musk, who now owns Twitter, raised concerns about the type of content
that will be allowed on social media on the social media site under his control.
Yeah, that's an understatement.
In a since deleted tweet responding to Hillary Clinton, Musk wrote, There is a tiny possibility
there might be more to this story than meets the eye with a link to a story from the right
wing website.
Santa monica Observer a site that has pushed anti LGBT conspiracy theory regarding the
attack.
According to an archived version of the story, the outlet previously made false claims, including
that Hillary Clinton died on 911 and was replaced by a lookalike.
You can still find an archive of the story that was posted and the story says it doesn't
add up.
People on social media are questioning the attack on Paul Pelosi and it says, you know,
San Francisco's gay bars close at 2 a.m.
And what happened was the bar's closed.
Paul Pelosi went home with his lover and it was a lover's quarrel.
A lover's quarrel.
Now, Ben Collins on MSNBC explains how this entire thing got going.
And it really is instructive in terms of how this nonsense starts with a spark and very
quickly becomes a fire that is difficult to put out.
Speaker 4: First of all, lies on the air faster than the truth.
And that's in part why there are all these safeguards that Elon Musk is trying to take
down on Twitter right now.
The lies that were pushed were from that piece of information they found.
For example, they said that Paul Pelosi was in his underwear.
Of course, it was 230 in the morning at the time he was attacked.
That led them to believe this was a lover's quarrel between two different people that
knew each other.
The reason they believe they knew each other is because the police put out a statement
saying that they didn't really know who opened the door.
So that led them to believe there was a third person in the house.
So from there, there was this world building on the pro-Trump Internet.
What could be the opposite of reality here?
And the opposite reality they came up with was these two people were having a lover's
quarrel in a house and the police sort of intruded on us.
It's fundamentally incorrect.
It was pushed by the richest man in the world.
And then yesterday it was pushed by Donald Trump Jr, who posted a picture of underwear
and a hammer and served as a Halloween costume for Pelosi.
If we don't cut this out right now, not just the normalization of violence, but the idea
that reality can't even exist anymore because it cannot catch up to lies on the Internet.
I'm not a scholar on authoritarian history, but I've I've read Hannah Arendt.
I've read all of these people.
This is how it gets really bad.
This is the start of something that gets really, really bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
And Ben Collins is, of course, completely correct.
And the added layer to it now is forget about whether Elon Musk is going to properly moderate
at Twitter, the dissemination of outrageous disinformation.
He's participating in spreading it, which is a new dystopian layer altogether.
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