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Steve Mollman is a contributors editor at Fortune. The Elon Musk Twitter saga just keeps getting weirder. Days after Musk finally took control of the social media platform, he fired off a head-scratching tweet from a dubious source about the man who violently attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Musk was responding to a tweet from Hillary Clinton, who shared a Los Angeles Times article about the suspect, year-old David DePape, who became immersed in right-wing conspiracies online. It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. Fortune reached out to Twitter for clarification on how the tweet was deleted but did not receive an immediate response.

However the incident unfolds, it will do little to instill confidence among the many Twitter users— among them celebrities, lawmakers, and advertisers —apprehensive about where Musk will take the platform. By Steve Mollman. By Steve Mollman Contributors Editor. Steve Mollman Contributors Editor. Elon Musk's first days atop Twitter have been a tad bewildering.

Then his tweet, which he posted early Sunday, vanished later in the day. Amid many doubts about where Musk will take Twitter, the sequence only deepened the uncertainty.