Elon Musk tweeted a hyperlink to an unfounded hearsay concerning the assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband – simply days after he purchased the platform sparking fears it will not search to restrict misinformation and hate speech.
The tweet, which he later deleted, linked to an article by the Santa Monica Observer, an outlet that beforehand stated Hillary Clinton died on 11 September and was changed with a physique double.
In this case, the article recycled a baseless declare that the private lifetime of Paul Pelosi, the House Speaker’s husband, in some way performed a job in an intruder’s assault within the couple’s San Francisco house.
Musk was replying to a tweet by Mrs Clinton.
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She had criticised Republicans for usually spreading “hate and deranged conspiracy theories” and stated: “It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result.”
In response, Musk posted a hyperlink to the perimeter web site, and added: “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.”
Police in San Francisco have stated the suspect in final week’s assault, recognized as David DePape, 42, broke into the Pelosi household’s Pacific Heights house early on Friday and confronted Mr Pelosi, demanding to know, “Where is Nancy?”
The two males struggled over a hammer earlier than officers responding to a 911 name to the house noticed DePape strike Mr Pelosi no less than as soon as, police stated.
DePape was arrested on suspicion of tried homicide, elder abuse and housebreaking. Prosecutors plan to file costs on Monday and anticipate his arraignment on Tuesday.
Police say the assault was “intentional” and never random however haven’t said publicly what they think about to be the motive.
The trade between Musk and Mrs Clinton got here a day after Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of security and integrity, stated the corporate’s insurance policies towards “slurs” and “hateful conduct” have been nonetheless in place.
Shortly after Musk took management of Twitter, some accounts on the platform started tweeting messages starting from racist slurs to political misinformation, resembling “Trump won”, to see what can be tolerated.
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Mr Musk stated on Friday that he would type a “content moderation council” and promised advertisers the positioning wouldn’t devolve right into a “free for all hellscape”.
This is regardless of describing himself as a “free speech absolutist”.
However, no less than one main advertiser, General Motors, stated it’s going to droop promoting on Twitter whereas it displays the course of the platform beneath Musk.
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