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PolitiFact - Video of Elon Musk talking about Andrew Tate is a deepfake
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Did Elon Musk say he reinstated Andrew Tate to Twitter in an effort to expose global elites? No — that video’s a deepfake.

The video is a deepfake. It is manipulated from video that originally showed Elon Musk speaking during an April 2022 TED Talk interview months before he bought Twitter. That interview didn’t mention Tate.Twitter CEO Elon Musk is focused on exposing"the global elites." At least, that’s the claim in a video that shows Musk parroting common QAnon conspiracy theory rhetoric.showed a Musk in a slightly blurry, zoomed-in video.

This was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. That’s because it’s a deepfake.interview that Musk gave in April 2022, months before he bought Twitter. The TED Talk interview was centered around Musk’s bid to acquire the platform — something that he said at the time he was"not sure" was possible.

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