Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right groups. Musk’s excruciating March 27 deposition in the matter, which a judge ordered released to the public over the objections of the CEO’s lawyer, reveals the extent to which he has continually sabotaged both himself and the social media platform he owns.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Are we just going to ignore the fact that an account can’t be a “burner” account if you keep reusing it? This abuse of language doesn’t fly with me

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      8 months ago

      Just like how a drug dealer throws away their burner phone after every drug deal. /s

      Or maybe you’re not thinking about what this word means in context. Burner doesn’t mean “use once and abandon”, it means “use anonymously and abandon if needed”.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, he’s clearly too far down the reddit rabbithole.

        Has to “uhm ackshually” about everything.

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        7 months ago

        For a plug thats not a “burner”, its the trap phone. Hearing lemmy nerds talk about this stuff is amusing