Musk being sued for defaming random nobody as fed provacteur and/or nazi

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Elon Musk Sued for Falsely Claiming Random Man Was a Fed Posing as Neo-Nazi The increasingly far-right billionaire can't seem to stop amplifying dangerous misinformation on his own social media platform

The short of it is that at some pride event, both the Proud boys and an explicitly neo-fascist group called the Rose City Nationalists showed up to intimidate the community. These nearly indistinguishable far-right groups ended up getting into a fist fight, and a couple of the masked RSN members got their masks ripped off.

The internet brain trust took images of these unmasked Nazis and decided that some random Jewish guy was one of them, claiming he was a fed agent provocateur doing a false flag, because none of these internet right wingers are willing to admit that neo-fascism is rampant among their ranks.

Musk flirted with this conspiracy theory before finally taking the plunge, defaming this uninvolved person using his massive social media presence.

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According to Texas firm Farrar & Ball attorney Mark Bankston, Brody’s legal counsel, these two comments did not rise to the level of defamation. (Bankston previously represented two Sandy Hook parents in a suit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, winning them $45 million in damages over his claims that the school shooting never happened.) Instead, in his complaint on Brody’s behalf in and a thread on X explaining the case, Bankston wrote that Musk crossed a line when, on June 27, he replied to ZeroHedge, a financial blog known to dabble in right-wing conspiracism. “Patriot Front ‘White Supremacist’ Unmasked As Suspected Fed,” read the title on the link shared by ZeroHedge, which led to a blog post that included a tweet from someone repeating the false accusation against Brody. “Looks like one is a college student (who wants to join the govt) and another is maybe an Antifa member,” Musk replied, clearly referring to Brody, “but nonetheless a probable false flag situation.” He also tagged Community Notes, X’s crowdsourced system, for fact-checking content on the platform. While ZeroHedge’s tweet has since been deleted, Musk’s reply remains visible.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...zi-1234836778/

You may recall Bankston as one of the leading attorneys involved in the monumental defamation case against Alex Jones.

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