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On Wednesday, a Los Angeles-based 22-year-old faculty graduate, Ben Brody, sued Elon Musk for greater than $1 million. Brody’s lawsuit alleged that over a sequence of social media posts, the X (previously Twitter) proprietor falsely recognized Brody—described as a “shy younger man”—as a participant “in a violent road brawl on behalf of a neo-Nazi extremist group” close to Portland, Oregon, this summer season.
Even perhaps worse, in line with Brody’s criticism, one in every of Musk’s X posts additionally allegedly amplified conspiracy theories that “Ben Brody’s alleged participation within the extremist brawl meant the incident was in all probability a ‘false flag’ operation to deceive the American public.”
The lawsuit outlined a “false flag” as a time period that is been “popularized amongst conspiracy concept media figures to imply a hostile or dangerous motion (sometimes an assault or different act of violence) that’s designed to appear to be it was perpetrated by somebody aside from the individual or group accountable for it.” It additionally famous {that a} “false flag” is a “kind of ‘psyop’ or ‘psychological operation,'” which the lawsuit alleged is “an idea which Musk has fixated on for a number of months.”
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