Column: Elon Musk's courtship with MAGA has driven X into misinformation abyss

Multibillionaires are eccentric. It’s common knowledge, like water is wet, fire is hot, “Joker: Folie à Deux” is a terrible film.
From Jeff Bezos to Peter Thiel to Richard Branson to Howard Hughes (adjusting for inflation), they do weird things: shoot themselves into space, invest in treatments to “cure” aging, buy islands and wash their hands a lot.
It’s rare that the other 99.9% of us are directly exposed to their world-ownership whims, though we indirectly suffer the […]
Column: Elon Musk's courtship with MAGA has driven X into misinformation abyss