Elon Musk Promotes QAnon “Pizzagate” Batshittery

The Daily Beast reports:

A day after visiting the sites of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacres and meeting with Israeli government officials amid backlash over his promotion of antisemitism, X owner Elon Musk boosted yet another unhinged right-wing conspiracy theory.

In order to lend credence to Pizzagate, a years-old conspiracy about a Democratic-run pedophile sex ring that was the precursor to QAnon, Musk peddled the false claim that an ABC reporter convicted on child pornography charges had “debunked” Pizzagate.

In reality, the reporter in question never once covered the crazed conspiracy theory. The Tesla CEO shared a meme featuring characters from The Office with text debating the validity of Pizzagate. “Does seem at least a little suspicious,” Musk captioned the meme.

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