The headline excerpt "Elon Musk's Twitter Mob" doesn't make it clear that the nasty people comprising this "Twitter Mob" aren't employed, directed, or controlled by Elon Musk. That's the hamfistedness. The Daily Beast is aware of and exploits the fact that this headline can then be used to cast Elon Musk as a hateful public figure, which is not commensurate with how this discussion about journalistic integrity started or should continue going forth. The rhetoric has essentially been poisoned.

Expect The Daily Beast to frame Elon Musk as some boogeyman Trumpian champion of "young white males" who is working for the forces of misogyny, according to their twisted logic.

With this precedent, now any white males who wish to defend Elon from identity politik hit-pieces are silenced with a simple #MuskBros hashtag, as is The Daily Beast's modus operandi.[0]

Threats do matter, but channeling public blame for these onto one person is unwise if that person isn't directly linked to them.

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