Ben Brody says his life was upended when the world’s richest man promoted a hoax tying him to a fascist event.
Ben Brody, 22, claims his life was upended in June when right-wing accounts falsely identified him as a participant in. Musk amplified those false allegations, repeating them days after people told him that Brody was uninvolved with the group. Brody’s lawsuit,, is being argued by Mark Bankston, an attorney who successfully sued InfoWars founder Alex Jones on behalf of parents of Sandy Hook victims.
That identification was obviously incorrect. The Twitter user had lifted Brody’s picture from an Instagram post by Brody’s Jewish fraternity—an unlikely affiliation for a neo-Nazi.People who knew Brody were quick to push back on the allegations. “Its not Ben Brody, I spoke with him and a friend earlier, he was not there,” a Twitter user replied several hours after Musk’s post.
Two days after his initial tweet about Brody, Musk replied to a conspiracy-promoting account, which had tweeted an article about Brody. “Looks like one is a college student and another is maybe an Antifa member, but nonetheless a probable false flag situation,” Musk wrote. The suit points to other instances in which Musk has promoted conspiracy theories, like one that falsely claimed a brutal attack onOne of those conspiracy claims has previously resulted in a defamation case against Musk. In 2018, Musk became embroiled in a war of words with a cave diver who had helped rescue 12 boys trapped in a Thailand cave. After the diver criticized Musk’s cave-rescue plan, Musk baselessly called the diver a “pedo guy.
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