Billionaire Elon Musk sank greater than $100 million into President-elect Donald Trump’s marketing campaign. However a purported X submit from the South African-born entrepreneur that mentions his marketing campaign involvement is inauthentic.
“There certain is loads of chatter about me being a foreign-born particular person having an outsized affect on US politics, so enable me to remind everybody of america overstepping its boundary by serving to to finish apartheid in my house nation,” reads what appears like an X submit from Musk. “Perhaps we name it even?”
A Nov. 6 Threads submit sharing what appears like a screenshot of the X submit mentioned: “Is that this idiot offended apartheid ended? He’s on a revenge mission? Revoke his citizenship for election interference and ban him and any firm he’s concerned with from doing enterprise within the US.”
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We appeared for proof Musk that mentioned this however discovered none. It didn’t seem in a search of his X account, and there are not any information tales reporting he made such a press release.
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Musk grew up below apartheid in South Africa, leaving the nation when he was 17 to attend school in Canada.
Based on a 2017 Musk biography, written by Ashlee Vance, Musk mentioned he didn’t wish to partake in South Africa’s obligatory navy service as a result of it could have compelled him to take part within the apartheid regime, The New York Instances reported in 2022.
We fee claims that that is an genuine X submit from Musk False.
