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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.

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[–] Ragdoll_X 166 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (43 children)

An entertaining read that further cements Musk as an honest-to-god unhinged idiot. I've seen a lot of people speculate that him buying Twitter and tanking its value was some kind of genius plot, but the simpler explanation is that he's just unironically stupid and a bad businessman.

The fact that he has another burner account which he uses to get around blocks and hurl insults at others is both really funny and completely expected. I'm willing to bet a signed dollar that he has yet another alt that he uses to lean even further right and say the N-word on a regular basis.

[–] FlyingSquid 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I guarantee you that at least one of those burners has at least once instance of the N-word on it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Guarentee you he calls himself African American on that hidden burner.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Another old rich white guy identifying as a gay black man online?.... curious...🤣💯... interesting....true.... concerning...WE MUST RECLAIM RHODESIA'S INDEPENDENCE....uhh sorry that was the AI making a post on my account, now as I was saying about population collapse....

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[–] xantoxis 18 points 7 months ago

There's a third explanation: He's a fairly bad businessman but Twitter was always expected to lose money, and the purpose of owning it is to use it as a cost center for massive political influence.

I'm not necessarily espousing this theory, I have no real evidence either way, but lots of billionaires buy media outlets so they can direct public sentiment. Twitter, managed correctly, could have been a pretty good way to do that, but even within that lens it has been managed very badly, so IDK

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

He is an actual idiot.

When his name first became popular, I was like others thinking, hey, this guy sounds like a genius, maybe I should pay attention. Then I did pay attention and he ventured into my industry: comp sci and user experience. That’s when I realised he was an utter moron. When you know more about what he’s talking about than he does, it becomes obvious.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fact that people think that he didn't buy twitter because he thought he could print more money is frightening

[–] die444die 7 points 7 months ago

Umm, some things are more important than money, namely, power. He bought twitter because it allows him to silence critics and break up a social media platform that was allowing citizens globally to communicate and take stands against governments.

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[–] NounsAndWords 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Not fact checking" and "spewing objectively dumb shit" are not the same thing.

[–] FlyingSquid 20 points 7 months ago

True, but this was a legal admission. He said it under oath.

The whole article is pretty wild.

[–] Diplomjodler3 8 points 7 months ago

Elmo never misses an opportunity to demonstrate what an utter moron he is.

[–] bizzle 48 points 7 months ago (18 children)

X is “the most accurate, timely, and truthful place on the internet,” Musk said during his questioning about a false statement he made on the site that has been viewed by over a million users and has yet to be retracted or deleted almost a year later.

Hilarious.

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[–] MargotRobbie 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Having private accounts isn't that unusual for public figures, sometimes people just want to soapbox and vent in public a little but not attract too much attention to themselves.

Roleplaying your own infant son on one of your private account, however, is super, super weird.

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[–] HeavyDogFeet 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm gonna guess he has way more than two burners. The dude is an addict, tweeting is all he has.

[–] zeppo 11 points 7 months ago

There was that bizarre scenario with “Adrian Dittman” recently, where Musk - I mean uh, Dittman - called into Alex Jones’ show and was immediately called out for being Musk because he sounded almost identical. However, the caller denied it. Then Musk started doing little podcasts with “Dittman” apparently because it was so neat they just happened to talk almost exactly alike. Hmm.

Then, there’s “Doge Designer”, who is supposedly an Indian engineer at some Dogecoin focused company, but often says precisely what Musk would say about things, frequently gets replied to by Musk, and has somehow come up with TwitX stats and yet unseen personal photos of Elron with no explanation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I liked it so much, I bought the company!

[–] xantoxis 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are we just going to ignore the fact that an account can't be a "burner" account if you keep reusing it? This abuse of language doesn't fly with me

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Just like how a drug dealer throws away their burner phone after every drug deal. /s

Or maybe you're not thinking about what this word means in context. Burner doesn't mean "use once and abandon", it means "use anonymously and abandon if needed".

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[–] Jimmycakes 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What a sad pathetic little man. Proof that money is no substitution for a parents love if you want your kids to grow up normal.

[–] Eldritch 7 points 7 months ago

I'm sure he had a relatively normal upbringing. After all his father's current wife is his step sister. Who among us has not lived through something like that.

[–] FlyingSquid 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You don't need to fact check yourself when you're always right.

And the richer you are, the smarter you are, so he is always right.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

One flew over the Twitter’s nest

[–] Xbeam 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I want to know if one of his burner accounts is Adrian Dittmann.

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[–] profdc9 11 points 7 months ago

When you're rich enough, you can fight and settle all of the slander cases you want.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

So busy working all day yet he runs two burner Twitter accounts.

This asshole doesn't do shit but play Diablo 4 (which sucks ass), tweet, and boss around the people who actually make his companies successful.

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[–] Cosmicomical 9 points 7 months ago

More like two million bot accounts

[–] AgentGrimstone 6 points 7 months ago

At this point, he doesn't need those burner accounts. Go ahead and say what's on your mind, Elon.

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