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That’s a very weak argument - he wants them to describe scars or tattoos? Come on dude, anyone who believes you at this point is naive af.

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Same publication that tried to take down Dave Portnoy of Barstool. He at least had receipts to show that insider and the reporter was trash.

Insider is a garbage publication.

A $250k settlement is questionable though with one of the world's richest men.

Well, one would be naive to ignore the fact that there's an ongoing smear campaign against the guy.

It’s only a smear campaign if you believe everything he says (which I don’t).

The smear campaign didn't start yesterday. For example, Elizabeth Warren falsely claimed he was "freeloading", and said Musk buying Twitter was "dangerous for our democracy".

That’s a politician’s opinion, not a smear campaign. It’s possible for people to have a negative opinion or to expose the shitty things that a person has done without there being some grand conspiracy. In fact that seems much more likely to me.

Claiming that someone doesn't pay taxes isn't opinion. It's a factual claim, and a false one. That's a smear.

True it's only one example, but surely you don't expect me to list every attack against him in a HN comment? You can find a lot more attacks if you want to investigate further.

What claim did she specifically make that was false? I did a quick search and found that she referenced his 2018 tax return, but can't find any false claims that she made about him not paying taxes. Please provide some evidence, stating that others must do the work to disprove a claim you make is not acting in good faith.

She didn't reference his 2018 tax return in her Tweet.

People have mentioned that tax return to try to defend her, but she tweeted that claim in December 2021, a year for which Musk paid billions in taxes, not 2019.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/investing/elon-musk-elizabeth...

It's not just this case, and you don't need to believe him to see that the establishment hates him now. "Elon Musk, Chaos Monkey" is the literal title of an NYT opinion piece published today. [1]

[1]: https://archive.ph/LpkHB

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