So for over a week now Elon Musk's circle of friends have been going on and on insisting that Bob Lee's killer was obviously an unhoused individual and blaming the city for not jailing more people.
Now, it turns out that the guy who killed him was another tech exec who knew him, and they were originally in a car together.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made-san-francisco/
@mmasnick Speculation about news stories is a mental disorder that needs to be stopped.
It’s one thing to speculate about wormholes or if King Arthur was real. It’s something else to take unknowns in every breaking news story and fill in your preferred enemy as the culprit and act like it’s proven. Even if you’re right, you don’t score points for guesses. If you don’t know something you don’t know it.
@biobrain @mmasnick it’s not a mental disorder, It does a disservice to people who have mental disorders to have willful bad behavior attributed to something that people cannot control.
Speculation about crimes is a centuries old human pastime that is amplified in the mass and social media era but it only feels worse because the people whose speculations get the most amplification are the people saying the most dangerous things.
Mike Masnick ✅
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