Elon Musk post with misleading Trump article fact-checked by X tool

Elon Musk attracted a comment from his own social media platform’s Community Notes system this week after sharing a screenshot that misrepresented an article published by the American magazine The Atlantic. Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it X, re-shared a post containing a screenshot of an article supposedly titled, “TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER.”
“They are literally foaming at the mouth,” Musk commented, referencing a post by a user called ‘Indian_Bronson’. The post quickly gained attention on X, with many using Community Notes — a tool Musk introduced to decentralise fact-checking on the platform — to highlight that The Atlantic had never published such an article.
The screenshot, it turned out, was doctored by ‘Indian_Bronson’ as satire. The Community Notes appended to Musk’s post explained: “This is not a real article. No such headline exists in The Atlantic,” linking to a follow-up post by ‘Indian_Bronson’ admitting, “It’s me satirising them.”
Another note linked to an actual The Atlantic article written by the author whose name appeared in the doctored screenshot. That article is titled, “TRUMP: ‘I NEED THE KIND OF GENERALS THAT HITLER HAD.'”

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk has been in the limelight this US presidential election cycle thanks to his enthusiastic support for Republican candidate Donald Trump over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Elon Musk, a mega donor to the Republican Party, has been actively campaigning for Trump — online as well as offline — and has also organised a campaign rally in the Pennsylvania suburbs to urge American voters to support him.
The election is set to take place on November 5.