Saturday, May 21, 2022

Elon Musk called out Twitter over 2016 Hillary Clinton tweet linking the Trump Organization to a Russian bank
Ryan Hogg / INSIDER 

Elon Musk has accused Twitter of allowing "disinformation" on its platform by failing to act on a 2016 tweet by Hillary Clinton that linked the Trump Organization to a Russian state-owned bank.

Musk, who is in the process of buying Twitter, was prompted by a user who said they had reported the tweet — a screengrab of a statement from her policy adviser in response to a Slate article — to "the powers that be" at the social media giant for "misleading disinformation."

Musk replied: "You are absolutely correct. That tweet is a Clinton campaign hoax for which their campaign lawyer is undergoing a criminal trial." Musk linked to a BBC article from May 18 about a trial in which Michael Sussmann, Clinton's lawyer, has been accused of trying to "manipulate" the FBI in the run-up to the 2016 election. Read more and see tweet here.

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