“Video showing Elon Musk revealing his intention to acquire Meta”
What FACTLY found
The video shared in the post is an altered one. Elon Musk did not make any statement expressing his intention to buy Meta (formerly Facebook). The video shows a clip from Elon Musk’s conversation with the head of ‘TED’, Chris Anderson, in April 2022. During this ‘TED’ talk, Elon Musk had never spoken anything about purchasing Meta. The video was created by altering the audio of the original video clipping
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 2 December 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 16 December 2022, 14 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/reel/ClqTRryA6np/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=1ea336bf-737d-4526…
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