‘You’re Such a Moron!’: Elon Musk Destroyed on Social Media for Posting Fake Article That Compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, Violating X’s Community Rules

Protector of free speech, or purveyor of false narratives? Elon Musk likes to cast himself as the former, but as his fervor for Donald Trump has grown, so has his propensity for spreading misinformation. And that’s no small thing when you own the world’s largest social media platform. Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, participates in a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center on May 27, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were scheduled to be the first people since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States, but the launch was postponed due to bad weather. (Photo by Saul Martinez/Getty Images) Last week, Musk shared a distorted version of Jeffrey Goldberg’s Oct. 22 article in The Atlantic headlined “Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had.’” In the original, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, went public with his concerns about his former boss, saying he “falls in the general definition of a fascist.” “He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.” Kelly also said Trump “commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good...