By then, Musk had become openly conservative. He regularly replied to right-wing accounts and personalities including @Catturd2, the trolling alter ego of a Trump-supporting Florida man, and Jack Posobiec, an activist who promoted Pizzagate, offering to personally look into their complaints about Twitter. He also gave a tour of the office to Dave Rubin, a conservative podcast host, allowing him to spend two days at Twitter headquarters asking employees questions about why his own account had been limited in its reach.

