Elon Musk accused the wrong man of attacking a Pride event. Now he’s suing Musk for $1 million

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Elon Musk accused the wrong man of attacking a Pride event. Now he’s suing Musk for $1 million

When Neo-Nazis and Proud Boys disrupted a June 24, 2023 Pride event in Oregon City, transphobic billionaire Elon Musk used his massive social media network to publicly identify 22-year-old Ben Brody as one of the disruptors — the only problem: Brody wasn’t even in the state on that date. Nonetheless, Musk told his 180 million followers that Brody was likely federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi in a “false flag situation” in a post that rema…