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Craig Pittman: “I think you should be more honest about what that would mean for people, taxing them to smithereens, stopping oil and gas, making people pay dramatically more for energy. We would collapse as a country, so this whole idea of climate ideology driving policy, it just factually can’t work.”
— When a reporter asked him about the role climate change played in making Helene and Milton into monster hurricanes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis first attacked the reporter for daring to ask such a thing. Then he claimed, erroneously, that trying to combat climate change would ruin our economy.
450 posts, 679 million views
PolitiFact analyzed more than 450 posts Musk made on X, the social media platform he owns, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 14. These included reposts, quote replies and some standard replies to other X users. Musk — who was born in South Africa in 1971 and became a U.S. citizen in 2002 — continued his long-standing election year pattern of sharing falsehoods about immigrants and the immigration process, including baselessly claiming that immigrants have or will vote in U.S. elections. Musk has more than 202 million X followers who regularly view and interact with his posts. The misinformation-containing posts we analyzed over these two weeks received nearly 679 million views, more than 5.3 million likes and over 1.6 million reposts.
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“More than 80 American Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics have signed an open letter endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president,” the New York Times reports.
