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> If Elon thinks this is some sort of big shock that will cause people to get excited.... I can't really see why.

Of course people will get excited. If Elon were to flog a "Hunter Biden's laptop" story that turned out to be that its hard drive was 4500 RPM when the SKU was marketed as 5400, and that capacity was measured in gigabytes rather than gibibytes, people would still get excited. Facts have little to do with any of this, it's all a post-modern, post-truth exercise in perceptions.

This isn't about any story that Elon Musk was flogging. It's about a true story that was published in a major tabloid about one of two presidential candidates on the eve of an election that every major media outlet colluded to suppress.

Minimizing it is condescending. Tainting it through associating it with Musk is as cynical as tainting it by associating it with mystery Russians.