A fake screenshot of an Elon Musk tweet has generated confusion online, following the release of thousands of pages of emails related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The confusion arose after the US House Oversight Committee's release of around 20,000 pages of emails on 12 November. An email from 2018 showed an exchange between the Epstein brothers, in which Mark Epstein suggested consulting Donald Trump's adviser, Steve Bannon, over whether the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had compromising photographs of Trump 'blowing Bubba'. As discussion of the email grew, a fabricated screenshot of a tweet, purportedly from Musk, began to circulate online. The image appeared to show the Tesla chief executive making a connection between Trump and the term 'Bubba'.
