Musk is causing a stir by spreading conspiracy theories

Pelosi's 82-year-old husband was struck by a man with a hammer during a late-night attack at the couple's home in California.

Musk is causing a stir by spreading conspiracy theories

Pelosi's 82-year-old husband was struck by a man with a hammer during a late-night attack at the couple's home in California. Among other things, Paul Pelosi suffered a fractured skull and injuries to his right arm. US media suspected at the weekend that the burglar was actually targeting Nancy Pelosi a week and a half before the US congressional elections. The politician of President Joe Biden's Democratic Party is Chair of the House of Representatives.

With his controversial tweet, Musk responded to a message from former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Sunday, who circulated an article about alleged links between the suspect arrested after the attack on Paul Pelosi and the far-right scene.

Musk then linked to another article in a conservative publication that made completely unsubstantiated claims about the background to the attack on the Pelosi husband. Commenting on the attack on Paul Pelosi, the billionaire wrote: "There is a tiny possibility that there is more to this story than meets the eye."

A few hours later, Musk then removed that message. Instead, the same spot on his Twitter account read: "This tweet has been deleted by the tweet author."

The incident is likely to fuel the discussion about Twitter's course after Musk's takeover a few days ago. The pugnacious entrepreneur has positioned himself as a radical advocate of the right to free speech and has accused Twitter of restricting this freedom in the past.

This has raised concerns that under Musk, extremists and conspiracy theorists will be able to romp freely on Twitter in the future. In response to such concerns, Musk announced on Friday that Twitter would "establish a content moderation council with very diverse viewpoints."

The online service's handling of hate messages has been put to the test since Friday by a so-called troll campaign with a flood of denigrating messages. In the past 48 hours, the service had "seen a small number of accounts" containing tweets "containing defamation and other derogatory language," said the service's security and integrity director, Yoel Roth, on Sunday.

"Almost all" of those accounts were fake, the Twitter executive added. A certain disparaging word was contained in 50,000 tweets, but they were only sent from 300 accounts.

Twitter has taken steps to "block users involved in this troll campaign," Roth said. The company will also continue to work to make the service safe and welcoming for everyone. Trolls are Internet users who deliberately disrupt online discussions and poison their atmosphere.

Roth noted that the short message service's policies have not changed since Musk acquired it. Hateful behavior has no place there. "And we are taking steps to curb organized efforts to make people think this is different," the department head wrote on Twitter.

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