Elon Musk bashes DEI and spreads conspiracy theories as Los Angeles burns

This is an adapted excerpt from the Jan. 9 episode of “All In with Chris Hayes.”
Rumors, lies and hoaxes have always spread during times of disaster. That phenomenon is as old as humanity itself. Even in the best of circumstances, a crisis like the Los Angeles wildfires would be a vector for a lot of bad information.
Our polluted information environment is creating an absolute blowtorch of lies — lies being spread by the richest man in the world on the platform he owns and by the […]
Elon Musk bashes DEI and spreads conspiracy theories as Los Angeles burns