by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, currently credited with being the world's richest human, finalized the purchase of Twitter this past week with a promise to the platform's advertisers that he would not let the social media site become a "free-for-all" hellscape. That was what he said, but his actions quickly betrayed his words.
Yesterday Twitter's new owner posted a reply to a tweet by Hillary Clinton in which he indicated there might be more to the story of the assault on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, than had previously been reported. Musk then linked his tweet to an article pushing an unfounded conspiracy theory alleging that Pelosi'a attacker had been a gay prostitute who was in the employ of the victim. Musk left the posting up long enough to attract the attention of the MAGA crowd and then pulled it down.
San Francisco Police have confirmed that Mr. Pelosi and his forty-two year-old attacker DID NOT know each other prior to the assault. The police have also acknowledged that the attacker entered the home looking for Nancy Pelosi, and that in addition to the hammer, he also brought along zip ties.
Elon Musk owned Twitter less than twenty-four hours, and he was already using his new toy to stoke partisan political fires with the potential of violence by spreading unfounded conspiracy theories. That sounds like the early stages of 'forming a free-for-all hellscape' to this tired old typist!
I, for one, am thinking very seriously about packing up and moving on.
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