Elon Musk and a wide range of right-wing personalities cobbled together misreporting, innuendo and outright falsehoods to amplify misinformation about last week’s violent assault on Paul Pelosi to their millions of online followers.
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Updated October 30, 2022 at 2:40 p.m. EDT|Published October 30, 2022 at 2:03 p.m. EDT