Musk's tactics with Social Security match his business history

(WaPo) Excerpts from a longer article about the Doge invasion of Social Security

The anti-fraud campaign at Social Security also mirrors a long-standing obsession by Musk, whose takeover of the platform then called Twitter — as well as his argument to exit the deal to buy it — was premised on a similar quest to root out fraudulent bots that masqueraded as real human beings on the service.

“His playbook has now become quite clear,” said Paul Barrett, deputy director of the Stern Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University, referencing the parallel quest for fraud in the 2022 Twitter acquisition. “It is an extraordinary game he plays of wrecking institutions in order to dominate them.”

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Musk — who settled a charge of securities fraud with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018 over a false tweet claiming he had “Funding secured” to take Tesla private — has a history of claiming fraud by his opponents, whether in the political or business realms. As he sought to exit his Twitter takeover bid in 2022, he seized on the company’s previous claims about the prevalence of spam and bots on the site, alleging fraud in an aggressive countersuit.

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