Spyke
thefartographer
lemm.ee

“I’ll say what I want to say,” he said. “And if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.”

This statement alone shows exactly how broken our justice system and "freedom of speech" really is. At a rate of $1 million/libelous statement, Musk could make 251,200 false statements compared to the average American's 0-1 libelous statements.

When money is a microphone, the person whose microphone is hundreds of thousands of times louder than everyone else's should ABSOLUTELY be held to a much higher standard. Especially when that person owns the soap box that everyone has to stand on.

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Jaysynreply
kbin.social

Nit-picking.

Ben Brody, 22, said he was forced to leave his home after Musk falsely accused him of being a federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi.

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Wrenchreply
lemmy.world

I'm still confused. So is this guy still a neo nazi? I.E., was a falsely accused of being a fed, AND a neo nazi? Or just of being a fed.

Because I won't begrudge the leopard of eating a neo nazi face.

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mateomauireply
reddthat.com

My understanding is that he’s completely unrelated to all of it and was misidentified as someone else. Says he has debit cards receipts showing he was in a different state at the time.

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agent_flounderreply
lemmy.one

But others dismissed the reality of far-right violence by falsely claiming members of the neo-Nazi group were actually federal agents. That included Musk, who amplified the false conspiracy that Brody was the man in the mask, then later suggested Brody was part of a “false flag situation,” in a post on X ― previously called Twitter ― that remains up today.

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DeadNinja
lemmy.world

Musk got sued? Yeah, probably one out of the hundreds of lawsuits that bozo sees every day, and he's going to weasel his way out of this too, because he is stinking rich.

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