The billionaire and new owner of Twitter shared an article making wild and unsubstantiated claims about the attack.
Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted a link Sunday to an unfounded conspiracy theory about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, just three days after the billionaire Tesla CEO acquired Twitter and pledged to make changes to how it handles content moderation.
Musk replied to a tweet from Hillary Clinton, who called the attack on Pelosi “shocking but not surprising,” argued the “GOP and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories” and shared a report that 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.”
Musk linked to a no-longer-accessible article from the Santa Monica Observer—which has spread false information in the past—that appeared to claim without any evidence that no one broke into the Pelosis’ home and that Paul Pelosi was having an affair with a male prostitute, even though police say Pelosi called 911 during the attack.
Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Forbes.
Authorities say DePape broke into the Pelosis’ San Francisco home on Friday to look for the House speaker, yelling “Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?” DePape allegedly tried to tie Paul Pelosi up while waiting for the speaker to come home (she was in Washington, D.
