Elon Musk’s homophobic conspiracy thinking is bad for Twitter & bad for democracy

Who needs to worry about Donald Trump returning to Twitter when the new owner can do just as much damage?

Yesterday, Elon Musk decided to weigh in on the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband, Paul. An intruder broke into their house in San Francisco, apparently in search of the Speaker. Not finding her, the intruder assaulted her husband with a hammer.

Instead of expressing his sympathy to the Pelosis or decrying the attack, Musk took to Twitter to tweet a vile, homophobic right-wing conspiracy theory from an extremist online source known for making up wild stories.

It all began when Hillary Clinton called Republicans out in a tweet for “hate and deranged conspiracy theories” aimed at Pelosi that fed the suspect’s own delusions and led to the attack. Amid the hate and deranged conspiracy theories in the responses to Clinton’s tweet was this response from Musk.

This “tiny possibility” to which Musk linked was a bizarre “as told to me by a source” story from someone who purports to have information that Paul Pelosi hired his attacker for sex. The writer of the story begins with a bit of lurid scene setting…

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