Did Elon Musk say that he respects Vladimir Putin and wants to shake his hand?

At the end of April 2024, a complimentary assessment dispersed on the Internet, which the owner of the social network X allegedly gave the President of the Russian Federation. We decided to check if the businessman said something like that.

Some Russian media wrote about the statement of the mask addressed to Putin (for example, URA.RU And "Notebook") And other Information Portalsas well as users of social networks ("VKontakte" X, Facebook), Platform blog And forums. This news also dispersed widely in Telegram: they wrote about it "The world of Mikhail Onufrienko"(280,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Russia now"(239,000),"Uncle Glory"(226,000),"Observer"(200,000), Voblya (157,000) and other popular channels. 

Many of these publications contain a 56-second video With a mask. The entrepreneur’s speech is not heard in English, the alleged translation of his words into Russian is laid out on the video: “Russia is a country that knows how to protect its national interests and traditional values. There is no place for the idiotic elevation of LGBT. Here people are proud of their history, culture and faith. Russia does not turn poor countries into its slaves, but, on the contrary, helps them. There is a real leader who is not afraid to tell the truth and act for the good of his people. His name is Vladimir Putin. I really respect him, because, unlike other leaders, he will never hypocrite and tells the truth as it is. He never offends his opponents, which shows his strength. He is the only president who can easily speak to his people for several hours in a row and answer any uncomfortable questions. I will definitely meet with him and put his hand. Russia is an example of what a real strong and independent power should be. It is impossible to win such a country. ”

Mask had previously made pro -Russian statements. So, in October 2022 he Offered His version of the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, according to which Crimea should remain Russian, and Ukraine - to take on the obligations to comply with the neutrality. In September 2023, the media appeared in the media information The fact that Musk ordered to disable the Starlink Internet satellites, previously provided by him in favor of Ukraine, and thereby tore off the attack on the Ships of the Russian Navy in Crimea. True, the source of this statement is a biographical book about a mask written by journalist Walter Isexon, and a billionaire himself declaredthat he did not turn off anything, since the Starlink coating in the Crimea region was not originally activated. In February 2024, an entrepreneur He saidthat Putin’s loss in the war with Ukraine is impossible. 

“Verified” could not be discovered by a quote that dispersed on the Internet in authoritative English -speaking media and other sources. Mask and the largest Russian publications did not talk about the statement - both independent and supercanisarian. There is no viral phrase in account A billionaire in his social network X, where Musk not only actively communicates with subscribers, but often posts fragments of his interviews.

FACTECHERS from the project "Myth detector»Found the original video with a mask. This is a fragment of the interview that the entrepreneur gave Don Lemon on March 18. Video of the conversation Published On the YouTube channel of the American journalist. In an interview that lasts more than an hour, Musk talks about the moderation of content in X, the upcoming presidential elections in the USA and the candidacy of Donald Trump, racism and much more, but never mentions either Russia or Putin.

The earliest publication with this video and quote, which “verified” was found, was posted in the Telegram channel “Tucker Carlson in Russian»April 23, 2024 at 09:00 Moscow time. Two days later, they were deleted, but she remained in the archives of the TGSTAT service. In addition to the video itself, the post contained an advertisement for the Telegram channel "Tweets mask in Russian", Supposedly created by a businessman, to be closer to the Russian audience. However, it was not possible to find any evidence that Musk is really related to this resource.

The Channel "Tucker Carlson in Russian" was previously repeatedly convicted of the spread of fakes. So, he published fake covers satirical magazines, reposted the news that protesters Farmers supposedly filling up the Embassy of Ukraine in Paris, and became the primary source attributed Biden Quotes that in the Second World War the United States and Japan fought for common values.

Thus, Musk did not pronounce the words attributed to him about respect for Putin and the desire to shake his hand. The video sequence was taken from an interview published in mid -March, where the businessman did not say anything like that; A fictitious Russian -speaking voice acting is imposed on a cut fragment. For the first time a disassembled video and quote appeared in the Telegram channel, which was previously caught on the spread of fakes. Perhaps this quote was invented to attract subscribers to the recently created channel, supposedly belonging to the mask. 

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