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Elon Musks tweets about Texas mall gunman spread misleading claims, question shooters background
By DAVID KLEPPER
May 10, 2023
https://apnews.com/article/twitter-musk-texas-mall-shooting-misleading-claims-c297797d1eb0f708cc84d05e0735d8cc
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WASHINGTON (AP) Misleading claims about the neo-Nazi gunman responsible for Saturdays mass shooting at a Dallas-area shopping center are reverberating across Twitter, in large part because of Twitter owner Elon Musk.
Musk has questioned whether the man identified by authorities as the shooter, Mauricio Garcia, really had an account on a Russian social media platform, and Musk suggested that revelations about the shooters background could be a psyop, or psychological operation, in which the public is misled about the real details of the shooting.
Garcia proclaimed his white supremacist views on social media and sported Nazi tattoos. Authorities and independent researchers have confirmed his interest in far-right extremism and white supremacism. When police killed Garcia, he was wearing a patch that read RWDS, an acronym that stands for Right Wing Death Squad.
We do know he had neo-Nazi ideation, Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Hank Sibley said a news conference on Tuesday. He had patches. He had tattoos.
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applegrove
(118,963 posts)terrorists? Good times.
Red Mountain
(1,742 posts)Musk seemed to be invested in arguing the shooter wasn't a white supremacist.
It was odd....and unclear why he decided to argue that particular point.
Was the shooter giving white supremacists a bad name?
Why would Musk care?
I'm afraid I might know.
lapfog_1
(29,244 posts)or his belief system.
Bluethroughu
(5,208 posts)He does not want his people being associated with someone less than white hood skin color.
David__77
(23,641 posts)Not so complicated.
NutmegYankee
(16,207 posts)I mean, it's hard to dismiss swastika tattoos.