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PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Video of Elon Musk talking about Andrew Tate is a deepfake

2023-03-22 Video shows Elon Musk saying he bought Twitter and unblocked Andrew Tate’s Twitter account because “we need to escape the suppression from the matrix and expose the global elites.” Go to site post…»

The Dispatch→ Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Is Defying Early Expectations

2023-03-22 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on March 16, 2023 in Rome. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)Her election prompted concerns about far-right tendencies, but she’s governed more like Thatcher than Orbán.Continue reading Italy’s Giorgia M Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Elon Musk didn’t tweet this about The Joint Commission

2023-03-20 Elon Musk tweeted he would “buy Joint Commission and let nurses have drinks at their station.” Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Invent Energy-Saving Device That Will Cut Power Bills By 90%

2023-03-14 Did Elon Musk invent a ground-breaking plug-in device that helps lower electric bills by lowering consumption instantly? No, that's not true: Electrical devices with identical plastic housings have been marketed online for years without m Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Earth is round and Elon Musk didn’t say it was flat

2023-03-13 Elon Musk tweeted, “The world is flat.” Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Endorse A Remedy Called Shilajit — Video Altered With Cloned Voice

2023-03-13 Did Elon Musk endorse a remedy called shilajit? No, that's not true: This video clip of Musk speaking at the Ted2022 Conference has been dubbed with a sound-alike clone copy of Musk's voice to make it appear he was touting shilajit, when Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet Bill Gates ‘Doesn’t Know How To Code’

2023-03-10 Did tech entrepreneur Elon Musk "expose" the professional incompetency of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in a series of tweets on March 2, 2023? No, that's not true: An archived version of Musk's Twitter account does not contain any entr Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Bloggers – No, Elon Musk isn’t poised to buy Facebook

2023-03-09 “Elon Musk to acquire Facebook soon.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – That video is altered; Elon Musk isn’t endorsing an anti-aging remedy

2023-03-09 Video shows Elon Musk endorsing “an anti-aging remedy.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still tweeting, despite baseless claims that Elon Musk banned her

2023-03-09 Elon Musk banned U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Twitter. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hungary Is NOT Preparing To Prosecute ‘Lifelong Nazi’ George Soros

2023-03-09 Is Hungary preparing to prosecute "lifelong Nazi" George Soros? No, that's not true: The claim, posted by a prolific publisher of fake news, is based on a single anonymous source. It repeats the oft-debunked claim that financier and phila Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Ban Greta Thunberg From Twitter — It’s Satirical Story

2023-03-09 Did Elon Musk ban activist Greta Thunberg from Twitter? No, that's not true: Thunberg's Twitter account is still active. The claim appears in a publication with a disclaimer that its satirical articles are "not meant to be taken seriously Go to site post…»

Truth or Fiction?→ Elon Musk Apologizes After Mocking Disabled Twitter Worker

2023-03-08 Twitter owner Elon Musk backtracked on March 7 2023 after engaging in public mockery of one of the platform’s employees trying to find out whether he still had a job. Musk had claimed that Haraldur “Halli” Thorleiffson was not doing a Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Is NOT Offering To Pay Homeowners To Install Solar Panels — Site Harvesting Personal Info

2023-03-03 Did Elon Musk offer to pay 100 homeowners to test the "newest technology of solar panels"? No, that's not true: This offer that's too good to be true is a ruse to collect personal information and is not associated with Musk or Tesla in an Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Is NOT Buying Facebook

2023-03-01 Is Elon Musk buying Facebook? No, that's not true: The article saying so has a clear disclaimer at the end that reads, "Recall that this is satire and not actual news." The claim originated in an article (archived here) published by Topad Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Elon Musk Talking About Andrew Tate — It’s A Deepfake

2023-02-10 Does a social media video show entrepreneur Elon Musk discussing imprisoned internet influencer Andrew Tate? No, that's not true: This appears to be a "deepfake" video of Musk, now the CEO of Twitter. The video uses publicly available foo Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Threaten To Block DirecTV’s Satellites — It’s Satire

2023-02-06 Did Elon Musk threaten in a series of tweets to block DirecTV's satellite dishes after the TV provider banned NewsMax from their channel lineup? No, that's not true: The story is labeled satire on the website that published it. SpaceXMani Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk NOT Endorsing Quantum Ai Crypto Platform Despite Falsified CBC Report

2023-02-03 Did business mogul Elon Musk and Canadian celebrities endorse the "new" cryptocurrency platform Quantum Ai, according to a video supposedly from the CBC? No, that's not true: CBC News told Lead Stories that they did not publish the video Go to site post…»

Logically→ Bill Gates disabled the comments feature on his Twitter after Elon Musk ‘exposed’ him in the Twitter Files.

2023-02-03 Bill Gates has not been named in the Twitter Files. Gates's account turned off the comments in July 2020, before the files were released. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Altered video of Elon Musk uses 2017 interview about the future of transportation

2023-01-17 Video shows Elon Musk talking about what “every failed leader” he met had in common. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy Google

2023-01-10 Did a YouTube video reveal that Elon Musk bought the search engine giant Google? No, that's not true: The video has a clickbait title, offers no details of a sale and appeared on a YouTube channel that admits its videos are fictional and Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Alyssa Milano’s ‘Temper Tantrum’ Over Elon Musk Has NOT Cost Her $13 Million — Story From Satire Website

2023-01-09 Did Alyssa Milano's "temper tantrum" over Elon Musk cost her $13 million? No, that's not true: This satirical article was published by a website connected to the satire network, America's Last Line of Defense, which clearly identifies its Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy ABC And Cancel ‘The View’ — Story Originated On A Satire Website

2023-01-05 Did Elon Musk buy the ABC Network and cancel its daytime talk show "The View"? No, that's not true: This is a fabricated story that originated on a satire website run by Christopher Blair, who plainly discloses that "everything on this we Go to site post…»

The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Elon Musk Say ‘Everyone Knows Trump Won the Election’?

2023-01-03 Elon Musk (Photo by Carina Johansen/NTB/AFP/Getty Images.) A clip of Elon Musk appearing to claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is circulating on social media. The clip has been digitally altered and no record exists of Musk maki Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Anthony Fauci NOT Arrested After Elon Musk Document Dump — It’s From Satire Site

2023-01-01 Did police in Washington, D.C., arrest top virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci after Twitter CEO Elon Musk released information that Fauci lied about COVID-19 research and imposed unnecessary restrictions on Americans? No, that's not true: The c Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT File A Billion Dollars In Lawsuits Against ‘Totally Unprepared’ Kathy Griffin

2022-12-28 Did Elon Musk file a billion dollars in lawsuits against "totally unprepared" Kathy Griffin? No, that's not true: The site that posted the story and a "Fact Check" follow-up is satirical. There are clearly marked disclaimers on the websit Go to site post…»

The Dispatch→ Fact Checking a Viral Claim About Elon Musk

2022-12-28 Elon Musk (Photo by CARINA JOHANSEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images) A digitally altered social media post falsely attributes a quotation from George Orwell’s famous novella Animal Farm to Elon Musk. View this post on Instagram A post Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Announce He Would Run For President, As Of December 24, 2022

2022-12-28 Did Elon Musk announce, as of December 24, 2022, that he is running for president? No, that's not true: As one of the most-reported-on persons of 2022, any such announcement would have been a top story for dozens of credible professional Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Did NOT Trigger Removal Of 44,000 Child Sexual Exploitation Pages ‘In Just India Alone’

2022-12-23 Did Twitter remove "over 44,000 Twitter pages involved with child sexual exploitation -- in just India alone" since Elon Musk took over the company? No, that's not true: Such large numbers came from global totals, not from India alone. Al Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy Donald Trump’s Truth Social

2022-12-22 Did Twitter CEO Elon Musk purchase former President Donald Trump's Truth Social in December 2022? No, that's not true: A video shared on Facebook claimed in the headline that Musk had bought the social media platform, but a voiceover narr Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet That Tesla Was Forced To Recall Its Entire Fleet

2022-12-22 Did Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweet that Tesla, his electric-vehicle and sustainable-energy company, was forced to recall its entire fleet? No, that's not true: The tweet was posted by a parody account impersonating Musk, the CEO of Tesla. Th Go to site post…»

Truth or Fiction?→ Police Describe Member of Elon Musk’s Security Team as ‘Suspect’ in ‘Stalker’ Incident

2022-12-21 On December 21 2022, an Imgur user shared a screenshot of the following tweet, asserting that a member of Elon Musk’s security team had been deemed a “suspect” in an incident Musk tweeted about earlier in December 2022: Overall, the Go to site post…»

The Dispatch→ Elon for a Day

2022-12-21 (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)How the Twitter czar is like Xi Jinping.The post Elon for a Day appeared first on The Dispatch. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Altered video appears to show Elon Musk saying he’ll buy Meta

2022-12-20 Elon Musk said, “I predict that I will buy tomorrow the entire Meta company.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, this isn’t a real Elon Musk tweet about journalists getting ‘murdered’

2022-12-20 Elon Musk said, “In some parts of the world, journalists get murdered for crossing the wrong people.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Elon Musk – Elon Musk said he wouldn’t ban the Twitter account tracking his jet. Weeks later, he suspended it

2022-12-19 “My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk.” Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Elon Musk Flew To ‘Epstein Island’; Map Is Fake And There’s No Place To Land

2022-12-19 Does an image of a flight log shared on social media show that a private jet owned by Elon Musk traveled to Little St. James Island -- also known as "Epstein Island" -- a dozen times since 2010? No, that's not true: The map has been ackno Go to site post…»

Truth or Fiction?→ Elon Musk, Jared Kushner at World Cup in Qatar

2022-12-19 On December 18 2022, a photograph purportedly showing Twitter’s new chief executive officer Elon Musk with Jared Kushner at the World Cup was shared to r/pics, later rising to the top spot on r/all: Elon Musk hanging out with Jared Kus Go to site post…»

The Dispatch→ Fact Checking a Viral Claim About Elon Musk

2022-12-19 A popular social media account attributes an Orwell quote to Musk.The post Fact Checking a Viral Claim About Elon Musk appeared first on The Dispatch. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet That Banning Reporters From Twitter Was ‘Innocuous Alternative’ To Murder

2022-12-19 Did Elon Musk tweet, "You know, in some parts of the world, journalists get murdered for crossing the wrong people. Banning the reporters I don't like from my own platform feels like a pretty innocuous alternative to me" on December 16, 2 Go to site post…»

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