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Sadik Hossain

‘The cringe deepens daily with this one’: Elon Musk apparently forgot he was posting from his mom’s account and accidentally outed himself

It looks like Elon Musk may have accidentally revealed that he was operating his mother Maye Musk‘s account on X. Recent activity on the platform led many users to believe he was the one posting from her profile. This is not the first time he has faced this kind of scrutiny, as he was previously exposed for posting from an account that posed as his young son.

The confusion began when the Maye Musk account quote-tweeted and responded to a post from Elon Musk. In the original post, Elon claimed his grandmother was a housekeeper in England when he was younger. Per Brobible, the Maye Musk account then tweeted, “Your mom told me she was cleaning toilets in a Liverpool boarding house as a child. When I met her in 1966, she was sewing linings for a furrier in a small windowless room behind the store.”

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