Multiple outlets have reported that DePape stormed into the house to look for the speaker, yelling, “Where’s Nancy?” Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer, authorities said. The speaker’s office said he underwent surgery for a fractured skull and “serious injuries” to his right arm and hands.
Nancy Pelosi said in a declaration on Saturday night that her husband’s condition “continues to improve.”
The attack on Paul Pelosi has alarmed lawmakers, who have denounced a growing number of threats against them and their families as violent rhetoric. particularly from right-wing factionsintensifies.
In brief comments On Saturday’s attack, President Joe Biden criticized the inflammatory political rhetoric.
“It’s one thing to condemn violence. But you can’t condemn violence unless you condemn those people who continue to argue that the elections weren’t real, that they’re being stolen… all the nonsense that’s being spread to undermine democracy”. ,” he said. “It affects people’s mentality. It affects the way people think, particularly people who may not be as stable as other people.”
It’s unclear why Musk deleted his tweet. Twitter did not immediately respond to questions about it.
The company’s takeover by the self-described “free speech absolutist” immediately led right-wing accounts to test their disinformation policies, tweeting debunked conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the 2020 election. Al Jazeera reported.
The Network Contagion Research Institute, which tracks social media threats, also found that tweets containing the n-word increased 500% above the previous average, as users of other radical platforms encouraged each other to amplify the insults.
Twitter’s head of security and integrity, Yoel Roth, defended the platform’s policies, saying that they have not changed. The increase in the use of smears was attributed to a small number of accounts, he saidand the company has “taken steps to ban users involved in this trolling campaign.”
After closing the deal with Twitter, Musk launched a declaration to try to calm advertisers worried that the platform’s toxicity would worsen under his leadership.
“Obviously, Twitter can’t be a free-for-all hell, where you can say anything without consequences.” he wrote.
