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Elon Musk’s proliferation of politically charged conspiracy theories on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, seems to have finally landed him in some legal trouble.
Attorney Mark Bankston of the law firm Farrar & Ball on Monday announced Musk posted on his social media platform that he filed a lawsuit against Musk on behalf of Ben Brody, a 22-year-old recent college graduate from California.
The tweet may have been deleted.
In June, Musk helped spread wild conspiracy theories that falsely accused Brady of being a “Fed” or federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi, leading to the young And his family was doxed and harassed.
As First reported Brody is seeking more than $1 million in damages, according to the Huffington Post. Brody’s attorney, Bankston, is best known for winning $45 million in damages for Sandy Hook parents against alleged conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who spread false claims that the 2012 school shooting that killed 26 people. It was a scam.
Musk’s comments were concerning. The famous video posted online showed a fight between the far-right group Proud Boys and a neo-Nazi group known as the Rose City Nationalists. During the altercation, one of the neo-Nazis was exposed, leading to an online search to identify the individual.
Musk based his analysis that the exposed neo-Nazi was Brady based on claims from other conspiratorial and right-wing accounts with whom Musk frequently interacts. These claims seem to be based entirely on the opinions of individuals who found Brody’s Instagram and thought he looked like an unmasked neo-Nazi in the video. The lawsuit specifically names X-users such as Matt Wallace, a crypto promoter and conspiracy theorist, and ZeroHedge, a conspiracy website, with whom Musk communicated to spread false claims about Brody. of
Right-wing Twitter users and other Musk fans at the time stepped up to spread these conspiracies, leading to threats and harassment of Brody and his family, and eventually forcing Brody and his family to resign. went. Run away from their house.
Brody, who also happens to be Jewish, wasn’t even in the state of Oregon at the time when the Proud Boys and a neo-Nazi group were fighting. Brady, his friends, and others on Twitter have attempted to refute Musk and others’ claims by posting security camera footage and receipts that Brady was held at a California restaurant at the time the altercation was videotaped. . Unfortunately, their efforts were fruitless as the false claims and harassment against Brody continued.
The tweet may have been deleted.
In a thread on X, Bankston broke down exactly what Musk said about Brody that led to the lawsuit. While Musk continued to push right-wing narratives about the feud, according to Bankston, he defamed Brady when he formally referred to college grades.
“It looks like one is a college student (who wants to join the government) and the other is probably a member of Antifa, but it’s probably a false flag situation.” Tweeted In response to ZeroHedge’s post about the exposed individual. In his post, Musk is referring to Brody and the right-wing conspiracy that the neo-Nazi group was made up of federal agents.
The lawsuit also cites Musk’s tendency to spread lies, such as when he Accused British cave diver Vernon Unsworth was criticized for being a “pedo man” and conspiracy theories, such as that he shared Domestic assault charges against U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband result in homosexuality allegations.
The lawsuit comes days after Musk’s CEO pick for X, Linda Yacarino, gave an interview at a tech conference that was widely criticized by the industry. trouble. During the interview, Yaccarino also shared new analytics for the platform that show X has. Lost millions of daily active users Since Musk acquired the company last year.
