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Seamus Webster

Elon Musk got duped by misinformation on his own platform, retweeting then deleting a fake headline about the British PM

Elon Musk sits at the Cannes Lions festival in France in June. (Credit: Richard Bord—WireImage/Getty Images)

Turns out, even the owners of social networks aren’t immune from misinformation that can be propagated on the site. Case in point: Elon Musk and X.

On Thursday, Elon Musk retweeted a fake headline from the Telegraph claiming British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was considering building “emergency detainment camps” on South America's Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory, to hold prisoners from the wave of riots sweeping the country fueled by anti-immigration sentiment. 

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