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• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  This is fake - I did *not* tweet out a link to The New York Times! [Image of NYT headline: “Elon Musk, in a Tweet, Shares Link From Site Known to Publish False News"]

• @daveyalba Davey Alba on x

  Elon Musk has deleted his tweet spreading an unfounded conspiracy about Pelosi's husband. And his fans are now upset that he has “caved to the leftist mob” https://twitter.com/...

• @mollyjongfast Molly Jong-Fast on x

  This exchange between @HillaryClinton and @elonmusk should kill any remaining confidence advertisers had in the platform. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter's content moderation policies https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_a_w Jason Wilson on x

  i'm starting to think that the starting point for understanding elon's agenda is recognizing that he is really fucking stupid

• @bgrueskin Bill Grueskin on x

  Musk today is tweeting out a story from the “Santa Monica Observer” ... the same outlet that reported Hillary Clinton had died and been replaced by a body double for a debate with Trump. https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  The situation Elon Musk is creating around content moderation & disinformation has an analogy: The ex president bullying public health authorities in a pandemic. The predictable result will be a lot more disinformation.

• @urbanachievr Christian Vanderbrouk on x

  unreal https://twitter.com/...

• @jimmykimmel Jimmy Kimmel on x

  it has been interesting, over the years, to watch you blossom from the electric car guy into a fully-formed piece of shit @elonmusk https://twitter.com/...

• @hankgreen Hank Green on x

  The fact that Elon went from promising that Twitter wouldn't become a “Free for all Hellscape” to /himself/ posting about a conspiracy theory from a website that once declared that Hillary Clinton was dead **as a reply to Hillary Clinton** in less than a week... https://twitter.c…

• @seldo Laurie Voss on x

  Seriously though: Facebook is a wasteland, Twitter in turmoil, Instagram has collapsed trying to be TikTok, and TikTok isn't a social network. If you wanted to start a social network, this would be the best time in 10 years to try that.

• @donmoyn Don Moynihan on x

  Elon Musk: please ignore my dismal record: Twitter will not be a free-for-all hellscape! Also Elon: Troll time! Let's launder a right-wing conspiracy theory in order to downplay the role of right-wing conspiracy theories in an assassination attempt on the House Speaker. https://t…

• @tomcoates Tom Coates on x

  Quick note to @Jason and @yoyoel - I'm assuming you've noticed that Musk is now spreading misinformation that Paul Pelosi did not get attacked by a far right extremist but was drunk and with a male prostitute? https://twitter.com/...

• @jtemple James Temple on x

  Herein we confront the problem in asserting that “widely diverse viewpoints” is the goal, when one side's view is we should lie about, minimize & applaud violent attacks on political rivals: https://twitter.com/...

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on x

  The person who owns this platform is a right wing conspiracy theorist. https://twitter.com/...

• @roarquette @roarquette on x

  Elon musk could have done so much good for humanity with his fortune ,instead, he's fanned the nuclear flames of 🔥 hatred and racism and Is intent on destroying democracy .What a waste of of life. All of this is a waste of life.

• @juddlegum Judd Legum on x

  .@elonmusk has been the sole owner of Twitter for 48 hours, and is now using the platform to promote vile conspiracy theories against Nancy Pelosi's husband, who is still in the hospital after being violently assaulted with a hammer https://twitter.com/...

• @dappergander @dappergander on x

  honestly and in all seriousness: pay as much attention as you can to how the disinformation ecosystem is shaping and reshaping the Paul Pelosi attack story as the hours and days pass this is a really educational moment and you're present for it

• @froomkin @froomkin on x

  “baseless allegations” is spectacularly insufficient. It's a deranged and categorically false conspiracy theory intended to deflect the blame from the GOP to the victim, and homophobic at that. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @pt Parker on x

  Are people are going to stop clicking ads because the CEO tweets dumb things? That's what we're saying here in a very obtuse way & it just seems wrong. https://twitter.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  According to @NBCNews' @anblanx: Police say on the record that Paul Pelosi and his suspected attacker did not know each other prior to the attack. It was a break-in. This directly contradicts conspiracy theories pushed by (and since deleted by) Twitter owner Elon Musk.

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  An 82yo man has fractured skull, victim of an attempted murder. The lunatic reportedly brought zip ties. Pelosi was the apparent target. Meanwhile? Homophobic disinformation is trending thanks to a concerted effort... ...turbocharged by actions of Twitter's owner. https://twitter…

• @mmasnick Mike Masnick on x

  Shit man. Free speech might be tougher than I thought. https://twitter.com/...

• @wkamaubell W. Kamau Bell on x

  Serious question. How do you complain to Twitter about misinformation on Twitter when Mr. Twitter is doing the misinforming? https://twitter.com/...

• @mollyjongfast Molly Jong-Fast on x

  Same and same https://twitter.com/...

• @dandrezner Daniel W. Drezner on x

  “It's been just two days since Elon Musk officially bought Twitter. Already, the billionaire businessman is using the platform to spread misinformation to his 112 million followers — about the biggest U.S. news of the weekend.” https://www.axios.com/...

• @dynamicsymmetry @dynamicsymmetry on x

  It has blown my mind for a while that people think he's very clever. He's a complete fool. That this deal happened at all is all the evidence of that you should need. https://twitter.com/...

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Welcome to hell https://twitter.com/...

• @cbouzy Christopher Bouzy on x

  The damage was already done. https://twitter.com/...

• @keitholbermann Keith Olbermann on x

  The author of the article @sarafischer clearly calls what Musk did “disinformation” but somebody at Axios tweeted it and erased the difference between “speculation” and “conspiracy theory” 🤦🏼‍♂️ https://twitter.com/...

• @passantino Jon Passantino on x

  Elon deleted his tweet linking to a known misinformation site but the damage is already done The call is coming from inside the house https://www.latimes.com/...

• @drericding Eric Feigl-Ding on x

  So, I have some Republican friends who are in deep denial today that Pelosi attacker DePape is not a QANON MAGA person. I then send them this @latimes piece... they call it trash—but I point out DePape's own daughter confirms her father wrote it. ➡️Silence. https://www.latimes.co…

• @timjacobwise Tim Wise on x

  It doesn't matter if they're “inauthentic” or not. Your company should be able to keep people from being bombarded with hateful bullshit, period. It's about user experience, not whether the people sending threats are actually going to show up and hurt those they harass. https://t…

• @keitholbermann Keith Olbermann on x

  I think we need to charge @elonmusk $4.99 a month to put up with his shit https://twitter.com/...

• @ruskin147 Rory Cellan-Jones on x

  Elon Musk tweets misinformation about Paul Pelosi. The new owner of this platform is a moron - who do I complain to to get him banned from it? https://www.axios.com/...

• @atrupar Aaron Rupar on x

  it appears Elon Musk has deleted this tweet without any comment https://twitter.com/...

• @cbouzy Christopher Bouzy on x

  Based on our data, I can confirm this is true, and I tweeted about it yesterday. https://twitter.com/...

• @davidfolkenflik David Folkenflik on x

  all perfectly designed to reassure advertisers https://twitter.com/...

• @vladsavov Vlad Savov on x

  It's not going to get any better from here... https://twitter.com/...

• @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x

  He deleted the tweet because he knew it was wrong and was clearly embarrassed, but can't apologize or even acknowledge that and so needs to lash out and make puerile jokes. So Trumpian. https://twitter.com/...

• @chris_meloni Chris Meloni on x

  So it is true. He really is an asshole. https://twitter.com/...

• @grogsgamut Greg Jericho on x

  You spelled “homophobic lies” wrong https://twitter.com/...

• @yoyoel Yoel Roth on x

  Let's talk for a minute about slurs, hateful conduct, and trolling campaigns. Bottom line up front: Twitter's policies haven't changed. Hateful conduct has no place here. And we're taking steps to put a stop to an organized effort to make people think we have.

• @jason @jason on x

  I met Yoel from twitter safety today, and as a long-term twitter user, I was impressed with his dedication to & perspective on security issues. I asked him to unpack the issue directly to users. This thread is well worth your time & amplification. https://twitter.com/...

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  The man with possibly the toughest job at Twitter right now is @yoyoel He has to explain to the world's richest man that a lot of the seemingly new novels moderation ideas he has for the company he just bought are just what Twitter has been trying to do for years. https://twitter…

• @jeffontheright @jeffontheright on x

  Good to know! Might be a bit disappointing for those wanting to make it sound like Elon Musk is turning Twitter into Gab though. https://twitter.com/...

• @sundersays Sunder Katwala on x

  Twitter say - the rules haven't changed, but there is an extreme effort to suggest that they have - 50,000 uses of the n-word came from 300 accounts https://twitter.com/...