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paulpauper
In fairness, it's not like this problem is new. It long predates Musk but he is now being blamed for it as if it's a new thing.
davidork
He spent a lot of money to fix Twitter..he should have probably had a game plan going in.

At least the bots help steer the conversation and provide useful PR services for the advertisers.

anigbrowl
He is responsible for his own tweets. The story he tweeted and later deleted was tissue thin - an opinion piece saying 'I don't believe the official story, here's an alternative explanation I heard from a source' followed by a long (multi paragraph) verbatim quote of sordid claims with no attempt at corroboration. It read to me like the 'source' was someone on 4chan.
clouddrover
The new thing is that the owner of Twitter is pushing misinformation. He bought it so it's his problem now. It's correct that he's blamed for it.
refurb
I hate it when disinformation spreads. Glad we have papers like the Washington Post looking out for us, like the Hunter Biden laptop story.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hunter-joe-biden-ema...

"Although reminiscent of the 2016 race — when Russian intelligence operatives hacked and released hundreds of emails from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager through WikiLeaks — Wednesday’s report was met with skepticism, particularly from social media companies that sought to limit the spread of the news."