(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk was hit with a defamation suit accusing him of promoting a conspiracy theory falsely identifying a California man as a federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi street brawler for a “false flag” government operation.
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Ben Brody, 22, sued Musk Monday in Texas state court over the billionaire’s endorsement of social media posts that compared an Instagram profile of Brody to a photo of a Portland, Oregon, White supremacist who violently clashed with the Proud Boys while both groups were protesting a June 24 Pride event in the city.
Internet personalities cited the profile, which identified Brody as a University of California, Riverside, political science major who planned to work for the government, in claiming that the street brawl was engineered by the authorities to discredit right-wing groups. Similar “false flag” claims have been propagated about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as well as a number of mass shootings.
In a June 27 post, Musk re-tweeted and commented on a blog post making the allegations against Brody. “Looks like one is a college student (who wants to join the govt),” Musk wrote, adding that it was...
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