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What do you do when the misinformation is coming from inside the house?

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A data scientist who worked at the company resigned after Musk 's Paul Pelosi tweet said he was disappointed with Musk 's tweet.

The color drained from Musk ’s already pale face and he leaned forward in his chair.

This is a pattern, writes Aaron Carroll : Musk has the ability to be one of the best informed people in the world.

Carroll: Elon does no research, and assumes the worst, and simply will retweet any nonsense he comes across so long as it confirms his biases.

His most-viewed post, seen more than 100 million times, was a misleading projection of the presidential race that showed Mr. Trump winning most battleground states.

Bloomberg ran a machine learning model on the posts to identify subjects that Musk most often discusses on X, and found that about 1,300 of Musk’s posts in 2024 revolved around immigration and voter fraud.

Some say that he knows he’s spreading lies to idiots and cultists who follow him.

However, I don’t think that's true.

I honestly think he believes the shit he's tweeting.

Whether or not this actually has an impact on the election or other important events in the future is impossible to predict.