Only dead fish swim with the current.

It’s a tough pill to swallow, I give you that. For many people the entire “Elon Musk is Russian asset” narrative is build on this specific event and then any further findings that seem to support this are added on top of it. If a person believing in this narrative would then aknowledge that they were wrong about this one it removes the entire foundation from said belief and it all comes crashing down. It’s no wonder that it causes major cognitive dissonance on people and they then do all kinds of mental gymnastics to hold on to their false beliefs.