Elon Musk Slanders Freedom Fighters, Bellingcat
So apparently Musk has been brainwashed by Russian disinformation. He’s been reading some of these sites, both on left and right, who have chosen to do the work of the Kremlin, spreading lies.
If Charlie Kirk is quoting you then lies and propaganda are surely involved:
There seems to be an effort to try and discredit Bellingcat by Twitter. Is that Musk’s ignorant hand involved?
One of the most prominent counter-claims that followed Bellingcat’s revelations questioned the notion that Garcia had “white supremacist” leanings, citing a purported photo of him online that did not appear to show the “neo-Nazi” insignia tattooed on his body that could be seen in the photos shared by Bellingcat investigator Aric Toler.
But as Newsweek Fact Check verified days later, the mugshot used in that “debunk” was in fact of a different man named Mauricio Garcia, and thus did not disprove Bellingcat’s research.
Yet even as their research was corroborated by other outlets including the Associated Press, as well as police officials’ statements regarding investigations into Garcia’s “neo-Nazi ideation,” Bellingcat appeared to fall foul of Twitter’s internal guardrails.
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins and multiple Twitter users began to report the disappearance of the outlet’s account from Twitter’s search page around May 11, 2023, though it was not immediately clear when the changes were made, nor Twitter’s motive for introducing them.