The billionaire and new owner of Twitter shared an article making wild and unsubstantiated claims about the attack.
Elon Musk tweeted a link Sunday to an unfounded conspiracy theory about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, before eventually deleting his tweet hours later, just three days after the billionaire Tesla CEO acquired Twitter and pledged to make changes to how it handles content moderation.Key Facts
In the since-deleted post, Musk replied to a tweet from Hillary Clinton, who called the attack on Paul Pelosi “shocking but not surprising,” argued the “GOP and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories” andthat alleged attacker David DePape had shared QAnon and election conspiracy theories online.
In response to Clinton’s post, Musk claimed there was “a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.”