“A meme shared by Elon Musk claimed that a pizzagate expert had been arrested on child pornography charges.”
Elon Musk
Claim dated 28 Nov 2023.
RumorGuard rated thisFALSE: Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy theory.
In short
Elon Musk made this claim around 28 November 2023. RumorGuard (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 November 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “FALSE: Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy theory.”.
Elon Musk has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://web.archive.org/web/20231128182601/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1729511790…
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