A web site known as merely “Elon Musk” with a coronary heart emoji just lately presupposed to report on some breaking information in regards to the Twitter CEO and self-described “free speech” supporter.
“Simply in: Elon Musk bans Greta Thunberg from Twitter,” reads the headline. The undated story says Musk banned the local weather activist from the social media platform as a result of he was “fed up with Thunberg’s frequent tweets about local weather change” and disabled her account.
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Thunberg’s Twitter account has not been disabled. She retweeted a number of tweets on March 14, and we discovered no proof that she ever stopped tweeting. There aren’t any information experiences to corroborate this declare. Plus, the story within the weblog put up originated on a satire web site seven days earlier.
The Elon Musk weblog put up circulating on social media now comprises no such caveats.
In December, Musk declared Thunberg “cool.”
We charge claims that Musk blocked Thunberg False.
Supply: PolitiFact.
