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  • Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy Google

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    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 have no connection to Musk. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has no record that Google, a…

    • Jan 10, 2023
    • by: Jennifer Dobner
    Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy Google No Sale
  • Fact Check: Alyssa Milano's 'Temper Tantrum' Over Elon Musk Has NOT Cost Her $13 Million -- Story From Satire Website

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    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 content as untrue and not to be taken seriously. The story appeared in an article published by dunning-kruger-times.com on January 8, 2023,…

    • Jan 9, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Alyssa Milano's 'Temper Tantrum' Over Elon Musk Has NOT Cost Her $13 Million -- Story From Satire Website Satire Site
  • NewsBlaze CEO Appears Linked To Anonymous Anti-Vax Site GoodSciencing.com

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    This article lays out the evidence Alan Gray (CEO of alternative news site NewsBlaze) is quite likely the key person behind the anonymously published website named Real Science hosted on the domain name goodsciencing.com. It was recently in the news because it was the source for some spectacular (but wrong) statistics about athletes suffering cardiac arrests (here's our fact…

    • Jan 5, 2023
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    NewsBlaze CEO Appears Linked To Anonymous Anti-Vax Site GoodSciencing.com Not Science
  • Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy ABC And Cancel 'The View' -- Story Originated On A Satire Website

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    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 website is fiction." The story has been copied and reposted to another site without that disclaimer. The article from…

    • Jan 5, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy ABC And Cancel 'The View' -- Story Originated On A Satire Website Satire Site
  • Fact Check: Anthony Fauci NOT Arrested After Elon Musk Document Dump -- It's From Satire Site

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    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 claim appears in a story on a site that publishes satirical takes on the news. The claim appeared in a December 27, 2022 article by…

    • Dec 31, 2022
    • by: Jennifer Dobner
    Fact Check: Anthony Fauci NOT Arrested After Elon Musk Document Dump -- It's From Satire Site Not Arrested
  • Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Announce He Would Run For President, As Of December 24, 2022

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    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 news organizations. No such reporting existed as of December 27, 2022. Nor had Musk, who owns Twitter and uses…

    • Dec 27, 2022
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Announce He Would Run For President, As Of December 24, 2022 Did Not Say It
  • Fact Check: Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Was NOT Arrested For Child Porn

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    Was former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal arrested for possessing child pornography? No, that's not true: The article is from a satirical website and is completely made up. It was originally published without a satire label but has been updated to note that it is an "obvious satire article." The claim appeared in an article published by Vancouver Times on December…

    • Dec 27, 2022
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Was NOT Arrested For Child Porn Made-Up Story
  • Fact Check: Rep. Scott Perry Did NOT Issue Statement That 'Italian Satellites,' CIA, Italian Government Stole Votes From Trump

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    Did Rep. Scott Perry make an official statement saying that "Italian satellites," the CIA and the Italian government collaborated to manipulate votes in President Joe Biden's favor? No, that's not true: According to Perry's office and a review of his Twitter account, the television graphic containing that statement is fake. Though he made no such official statement and the television…

    • Dec 23, 2022
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Rep. Scott Perry Did NOT Issue Statement That 'Italian Satellites,' CIA, Italian Government Stole Votes From Trump Fake Statement
  • Fact Check: Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Did NOT Trigger Removal Of 44,000 Child Sexual Exploitation Pages 'In Just India Alone'

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    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. Also, while the implication in the post is that such numbers began with Musk's takeover of Twitter, available information shows it…

    • Dec 22, 2022
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Did NOT Trigger Removal Of 44,000 Child Sexual Exploitation Pages 'In Just India Alone' Misread Data
  • Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy Donald Trump's Truth Social

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    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 narration in the video made no mention of such an event. The headline was merely clickbait. At the time of writing,…

    • Dec 22, 2022
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy Donald Trump's Truth Social Didn't Happen
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