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wjfox wrote: ↑Tue Nov 08, 2022 5:30 pm

(Mother Jones) Elon Musk seems to have settled on a bold new strategy for responding to a letter from a US senator probing his handling of Twitter: shitposting.

On Friday, Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) tweeted out a letter he had sent to Musk, partially in response to a Washington Post story in which the writer used Twitter’s new paid verification program to impersonate Markey.

“A @washingtonpost reporter was able to create a verified account impersonating me—I’m asking for answers from @elonmusk who is putting profits over people and his debt over stopping disinformation. Twitter must explain how this happened and how to prevent it from happening again,” Markey wrote in a tweet accompanying screenshots of the letter he sent to Musk.

Two days later, on Saturday morning, Musk decided to respond by tweeting, “Perhaps it is because your real account sounds like a parody?”

Markey, who—thanks to last week’s election results—will be part of the Senate majority for the next two years, quickly reminded Elon about the kind of power lawmakers on Capitol Hill can wield. “One of your companies is under an FTC consent decree. Auto safety watchdog NHTSA is investigating another for killing people. And you’re spending your time picking fights online,” Markey tweeted. “Fix your companies. Or Congress will.”