Taking your version of events at face value: Musk hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on someone who merely criticized his rescue plan, received some lies from said investigator, and uncritically repeated them to his massive social media following, thus smearing the person concerned ... and this makes Musk a tireless advocate for the truth and social media sanity.

Musk cultists are the worst.

PS, if Musk can so easily be deceived into spreading false information --- even when he, so incredibly rich and smart, hired the source of the information --- why would you trust anything he says?

EDIT: "Musk cultists are the worst" was out of line. I apologise.