Ben Brody, 22, said he was forced to leave his home after Musk falsely accused him of being a federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi.

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        Nit-picking.

        Ben Brody, 22, said he was forced to leave his home after Musk falsely accused him of being a federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi.

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          I’m still confused. So is this guy still a neo nazi? I.E., was a falsely accused of being a fed, AND a neo nazi? Or just of being a fed.

          Because I won’t begrudge the leopard of eating a neo nazi face.

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            My understanding is that he’s completely unrelated to all of it and was misidentified as someone else. Says he has debit cards receipts showing he was in a different state at the time.

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      But others dismissed the reality of far-right violence by falsely claiming members of the neo-Nazi group were actually federal agents. That included Musk, who amplified the false conspiracy that Brody was the man in the mask, then later suggested Brody was part of a “false flag situation,” in a post on X ― previously called Twitter ― that remains up today.