New defamation suit against Elon Musk over tweets reveals how the billionaire spreads misinformation and lurks on secret Twitter accounts.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14079046

Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right groups. Musk’s excruciating March 27 deposition in the matter, which a judge ordered released to the public over the objections of the CEO’s lawyer, reveals the extent to which he has continually sabotaged both himself and the social media platform he owns.

  • @jjjalljsEnglish
    1•3 months ago

    “Having fixed our faith in a father-figure […] we must keep it fixed until inexcusable fault (what what fault of a father, a mother, a wife, is inexcusable?) crushes it at once and completely. This figure represents our own best selves; it is what we ourselves want to be and, through identification, are. To abandon it for anything less than crushing evidence of inexcusable fault is self-incrimination, and of one’s best, unrealized self.”

    “They Thought They Were Free”, Milton Mayer, 1955.

    https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3746723

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free

    People haven’t changed much.