Posted on May 10, 2023
Elon Musk's tweets about Texas mall gunman spread misleading claims, question shooter's...
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Misleading claims about the neo-Nazi gunman responsible for Saturday's mass shooting at a Dallas-area shopping center are reverberating across Twitter, in large part because of Twitter owner Elon Musk.
Musk has questioned whether the man identified by authorities as the shooter, Mauricio Garcia, really had an account on a Russian social media platform, and Musk suggested that revelations about the shooter's background could be a “psyop,” or psychological operation, in which the public is misled about the real details of the shooting.
Garcia proclaimed his white supremacist views on social media and sported Nazi tattoos. Authorities and independent researchers have confirmed his interest in far-right extremism and white supremacism. When police killed Garcia, he was wearing a patch that read “RWDS,” an acronym that stands for “ Right Wing Death Squad.”
Musk has questioned whether the man identified by authorities as the shooter, Mauricio Garcia, really had an account on a Russian social media platform, and Musk suggested that revelations about the shooter's background could be a “psyop,” or psychological operation, in which the public is misled about the real details of the shooting.
Garcia proclaimed his white supremacist views on social media and sported Nazi tattoos. Authorities and independent researchers have confirmed his interest in far-right extremism and white supremacism. When police killed Garcia, he was wearing a patch that read “RWDS,” an acronym that stands for “ Right Wing Death Squad.”
Elon Musk's tweets about Texas mall gunman spread misleading claims, question shooter's...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Musk has laid off much of the staff at Twitter dedicated to ferreting out misinformation and toxic content and has since emerged as a source of misinformation himself. A new Twitter feature called “community notes” was created to allow users to add context or fact check claims themselves. But no community notes were attached to Musk's own Tweets about the gunman as of Wednesday."
..."Musk has laid off much of the staff at Twitter dedicated to ferreting out misinformation and toxic content and has since emerged as a source of misinformation himself. A new Twitter feature called “community notes” was created to allow users to add context or fact check claims themselves. But no community notes were attached to Musk's own Tweets about the gunman as of Wednesday."
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PO1 William "Chip" NagelI have a long thought that this man has an agenda all of his own, and I’m pretty sure the only one that will benefit from it will be himself
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CPO William Glen (W.G.) Powell I'm Starting to Wonder if it will truly Benefit Him? He is bound and determined to Drive the Finishing Nail into Twitter and Definitely Not Helping His Image with the Rich Yuppies that Bought His Teslas.
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CPO William Glen (W.G.) Powell I'd Say He is Trying to Imitate Trump's Success thru Bankruptcy!
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CPO William Glen (W.G.) Powell
PO1 William "Chip" NagelI agree with both of your thoughts. I just don’t think he is a self-absorbed as Trump was/is therefore, I have to wonder what in the world is he up to
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