"It is easy to see that he didn’t," wrote the conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt. "Those asserting that he did are low and absurd people without a shred of credibility."

A rapid revolt against Elon Musk’s X is building on Reddit, with hundreds of the San Francisco-based social media site’s forums considering bans of all links to X, formerly known as Twitter. After Musk sparked a wave of ire with back-to-back Nazi salutes at an Inauguration Day event in Washington,