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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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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 47 points 2 years ago

“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.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ironic considering that Elon Musk is a #fascist piece of shit.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Brody got Mark Bankston too, that dude will tear them up.

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.

[–] Kilnier@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Someone’s gotta send Brody a bag of gummy worms.

[–] Misanthrope@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mark Bankston is awesome!!! His interviews on Knowledge Fight are incredibly entertaining.

https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/size/25/?search=mark+bankston

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That's how I know him too, he is awesome. I watched the moment in court that he talked about the texts for the Alex Jones trial, it was surreal.

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It never ends with Elon.

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Schrödinger's Federal Agent

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

“We did it, ~~Reddit~~ SpaceX!”