You will find yourself called unethical around different groups.
Understanding what group you are in is important to keep in mind when judging others.
No one is going to get investigated or have their careers ruined because a vegan called them a murder, obviously.
Unreal what sort of knots someone will tie themselves into to excuse this type of behavior.
Your worldview seems limited to tweets and social media in first world.
If you say something false in a context where it is likely to actually harm someone, or with the goal of actually harming someone, you're an asshole.
Your level of assholeness rises in tandem with the expected harm of your falsehoods.
He is primarially known specifically as someone who is incredibly impulsive, is unable to differentiate fact from fiction and not actually interested in chasing any kind of objective truth in so much as that is possible.
But multiple times per week now for a long time you can see him sharing and commenting on things that are provably wrong and I don’t mean in some kind of “it’s just a different opinion” kind of way.
There is never any kind of introspection, never any kind of “oh I was wrong” just proceeds to roll immediately into the next round of bullshit.
So, no… people don’t have any kind of assumption that he has “strong ethics”. Maybe you meant strong convictions? Because that he certainly does have.
I'm sure you could make a case that these descriptors apply to him, not a particularly strong case, but ... You think he's primarily known for these things?