evidence: On December 27, 2022, Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted a message to his 134 million followers: "New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of that science." The reaction to Musk’s tweet ran the gamut from passionate support to enraged derision. NASA earth cartographer Joshua Stevens tweeted "This is fair and reasonable. If any scientist tells you otherwise, never let them wax poetic about curiosity and wonder again." But journalist Ashton Pittman pushed back on Musk’s tweet, writing "By ‘reasoned questioning,’ Elon Musk no doubt means clown car conspiracy drivel."