Elon Musk deletes tweet with unfounded theory about Pelosi attack - Reuters

Oct 30 (Reuters) - Twitter's caller proprietor Elon Musk appeared to person deleted a tweet posted connected Sunday referencing an unfounded mentation regarding the onslaught connected the hubby of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi astatine their San Francisco home.

The since-deleted tweet was successful effect to 1 by erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who blamed the onslaught connected hateful rhetoric by the Republican Party and linked to an L.A. Times communicative astir however the suspect promoted far-right conspiracy theories online.

"There is simply a tiny anticipation determination mightiness beryllium much to this communicative than meets the eye," Musk replied to Clinton, linking to a tract called the Santa Monica Observer that fact-checkers person described arsenic a purveyor of hoaxes, including that Clinton herself had died and been replaced by a assemblage double. The Observer did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Neither Musk nor Twitter instantly responded to a petition for comment.

With fears growing of expanding governmental unit up of the Nov. 8 midterm elections, Musk's tweet prompted caller concerns astir however helium volition grip hatred code and misinformation connected the societal media platform, which the outspoken tech and car mogul purchased past week for $44 billion.

Advertisers volition beryllium watching closely. General Motors Co (GM.N) said connected Friday, earlier Musk's now-deleted tweet was posted, it was temporarily halting paid advertizing connected Twitter aft Musk completed his takeover, and that it was engaging with the institution "to recognize the absorption of the level nether their caller ownership."

Ad income accounted for much than 90% of Twitter's gross successful the 2nd quarter. In a tweet past week, Musk appealed straight to advertisers, saying that nether his ticker the societal web "obviously cannot go a free-for-all hellscape, wherever thing tin beryllium said with nary consequences!"

The fishy successful the Pelosi attack, David DePape, is owed to beryllium charged connected Monday with aggregate felonies for allegedly clubbing Paul Pelosi implicit the caput with a hammer connected Friday aft forcing his mode into the couple's location shouting "Where is Nancy?"

Reporting by Nathan Layne; Editing by Daniel Wallis

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