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There's that time, soon after he took over Twitter, when he boosted a right-wing conspiracy theory that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a male escort (https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elon-musk-...). (He later deleted the tweet without explanation.)

This kind of stuff matters when it's amplified to 100M+ people, and he knows it.

I put some of the blame for the Club Q nightclub shooting that happened a few weeks later (https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/club...) on this kind of behavior. There's no evidence the shooter saw that tweet in particular, but his homophobia was clearly stoked by this sort of edgelord-ism on social media.