Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO of Tesla and owner of X chided, unfollowed, and blocked a conservative reporter from his DMs over her fact check of a false claim he made.
According to Anna Giaritelli, a Homeland Security reporter for the right-leaning Washington Examiner, she and Musk had enjoyed a previously friendly relationship until she asked him for a comment on an “absolutely false” accusation he had made of the Biden administration.
Giaritelli explained what happened on X:
Elon Musk followed me on X a couple years ago and has shared my work and been willing to respond to DMs about stories from time to time, including a back and forth we had for a story on the Secret Service last week.
Earlier this week, when I respectfully approached him via DM about his Sunday claim that Biden-Harris was ‘fast-tracking’ illegal immigrants to vote and provided information showing that confirmed it was not the case, Mr. Musk unfollowed me and blocked me from DMing him and said asking him for comment for a story via DM was inappropriate — despite him being willing to engage in the past. We did reach out to one of his companies, but did not receive a response.
Below is a link to our fact check on Mr. Musk’s claims that Biden-Harris are flying migrants into the US and expeditiously granting them citizenship. Buried lede: It’s absolutely false though we were unable to reach Mr. Musk for comment.
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