Drew HarwellWe found out what really happened in the stalking incident Elon Musk cited to ban @elonjet and a bunch of journalists. This is the story we were asking Musk about on Twitter when he suspended @taylorlorenz. (I'm still suspended!) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/
kyleisstephensAbout that alleged stalker incident in L.A. that Musk blamed on the ElonJet account: It took place a day after Musk's jet landed and 26 miles away https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/
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The r/news discussion for our story about Elon Musk blaming @elonjet for a "crazy stalker" incident that happened 23 hours and 26 miles away:
"It kinda seems like he senselessly lashes out at individuals when he doesn't get his way"
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/zpeokg/elon_musk_blamed_a_twitter_account_for_a_stalker/
Vincent VegaFella@drewharwell @elonjet sounds a lot like an expresident.
fartingloud 💨@drewharwell @elonjet He is like a spoiled child with behavioural problems 😔
Eileen@drewharwell @[email protected]
He certainly seems like an abuser. Lashing out, tantrums, punishments. No empathy. No consideration how his actions affect others. I consider his behavior to be violent.
He certainly seems like an abuser. Lashing out, tantrums, punishments. No empathy. No consideration how his actions affect others. I consider his behavior to be violent.
Andy Pearlman@elonjet @drewharwell sounds as if he has someone close to him who realizes normally, they can just blame external forces when something goes wrong. And didn't realize the power of the internet
Agora@drewharwell @[email protected] the man is NOT well.
Jason B 🧙♂️@drewharwell Don't all children?
Ryan Germann 
@drewharwell @elonjet "seems"?
Harry Callahan@drewharwell @elonjet kindergarten
Kitty ONeill@drewharwell @elonjet yep like a billionaire boy baby.... Waaaaaaaa!
lgtm@drewharwell @elonjet this is not a surprise to anyone who has been following elon during his Tesla and spacex days
Meteor ‘24@drewharwell @elonjet narcissistic behavior. His mother coming to his defense at every turn gives a good indication of why he is the way that he is.
melmccarthy@drewharwell reason enough for me to renew
JrRezvani@melmccarthy @drewharwell I just bought subscription.
@drewharwell thank you, Drew 🙏
Buncombian@drewharwell Musk’s security worker drives a Toyota! I suppose you need your protection to have reliable transportation, lol.
NanaKim@drewharwell I wish the Post delivered out of state. I've had a digital subscription for years. Don't know how much that helps. I'd love to get the actual physical paper.
@Nanakim Thank you! It definitely helps!
David J. Danto@drewharwell WaPo is the only digital newspaper subscription out of my area that I have. Well worth the minor cost to support what they've done and are continuing to do.....
@NJDavidD Really appreciate that! It means a lot.
Ryan Francis@drewharwell I bought a sub last night. Thank you for putting in the work to expose this fraud.
@ryanmfrancis That's amazing, thank you so much.
GreggHillPAC@drewharwell shocking,…..but not. Sounds like this is the not so new normal
JCBC@drewharwell Digital subscriber since January 2017 👍
EllenInEdmonton 
Carl Juneau@drewharwell -- Paranoid and mentally-ill people often draw from publicly available information. That doesn't mean that the information in question should become 'private' or that the public-at-large should be denied access.
TorontoWill@drewharwell The story prompted me to renew my subscription.
I paused my subscription a while ago because I felt I was being waterboarded with Trump news, and needed to get away from it, but I've always appreciated WaPo's work.
@TorontoWill Nice! Thank you.
Gabriel F
Michel Besner@drewharwell Maybe Elon will also remove the location of where we live in our profile - just in case we can find someone in LA or El Paso 😂
Shield Maiden@drewharwell It's almost as if he doesn't know how the internet works isn't it?
Sir J Mastodon@drewharwell maybe he’s been taking too many drugs at the World Cup?
Bruce the Sociologist@drewharwell I'm shocked! Shocked!
Nina Cano@drewharwell shocked I tell you, just shocked🥴
Allan Svelmøe Hansen@drewharwell Nooo - you don't mean that Musk fellow misrepresented the truth .....
Muriel Vieux 
I saw that well-lit car, with a man wearing a mask, filming those filming him... stationary... heck they took a perfect 2 or 3-second video of the license plate!
Musk would have me believe his kid travels only with one car, one driver? That they couldn't hold the car that had so graciously stopped for them until the police arrived?
@drewharwell Color me surprised. Not!
The only thing I'm wondering about is if he's blatantly lying or intellectually so incapacitated to actually think that elonjet's tweets led to the incidence. I'm leaning on the former but who knows ...
ProgressMarchOnIt really makes you wonder why Musk is so invested in keeping his flight activity private.
He's even creating false pretexts to punish those who publish the logs.
zahl@drewharwell The FAA tracks personal cars now, don't you know?
Can you imagine if Musk was subject to Gamergate-level of harassment? Doesn't seem like he'd be able to take it.