Elon Musk posts and deletes conspiracy tweet about attack of Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul

Elon Musk posted, and later deleted, a tweet spreading an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory about the attack of Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul.

The link, shared by the social network’s new owner, shared a link to an article claiming without evidence that the House speakers’ husband met his attacker at a gay bar.

Musk later tweeted a screenshot showing a New York Times headline detailing he had shared content from a site “known to publish false news.”

“This is fake – I did not tweet out a link to The New York Times,” he joked.

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