In November 2024, shortly after the completion of the US president’s elections, a screenshot of a businessman’s social network post was dispersed on the Web. It was a picture of a dollar bill on which Trump shows the middle finger, and the signature that this was the last dollar for the President of Ukraine. We checked the authenticity of this image.

The screenshot began to spread massively on November 6, several hours after the closing of polling stations in the election of the US president. Judging by the screen of the screen, Elon Musk published on the social network X an image of the dollar, on which Donald Trump, showing the middle finger, is depicted instead of George Washington. “The last dollar for Zelensky,” says the English -language signature. About the alleged tweet of the mask wrote Telegram channels "Zlaya Prof"(260,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Kremlin towers"(220,000),"Russia now"(209 000),"Uncle Glory"(204 000),"Putin in Telegram"(182 000),"Belarusian security officer"(171 000) and others

On November 5, the US presidential elections took place in the United States. The main candidates were the current vice president, democrat Kamal Harris and ex-president, Republican Donald Trump. All the key American media were monitored to count the votes. The first about Trump's victory announced Fox News TV channel - November 6 at 09:45 Moscow time, his analysts came to the conclusion that the politician is gaining a majority of votes in Wisconsin and thereby overcoming the necessary mark of 270 votes from the States. Soon Trump Turned To his supporters with a speech in which he called himself the next president of the United States. A little more than an hour after Fox News about Trump's victory Reported And other American television channels.

Billionaire Ilon Musk is an active supporter of Trump. He Supported Politics in social networks, He performed at his rallies, and since the attempt on the ex-president in July Donesty his election campaign is almost $ 120 million. Before the election, the entrepreneur also established The American PAC project, which collected donates in favor of the Trump campaign and promoted a petition in support of freedom of speech and the right to carry weapons. In the oscillating states, signathers who convinced other voters to register for voting, paid a reward from $ 47 to $ 100, and among them they played a prize of $ 1 million daily. They filed a lawsuit against the mask against the mask, but the court on the eve of the main voting day decidedthat will not forbid her. Part of his speech on the night of the Trump elections Dedicated The businessman, calling him a new star and supergrin.

Judging by the virus screenshot, Musk, presumably, published an edited image of a banknote of $ 1, and then (noteworthy, an hour later) replaced this tweet, accompanying it with a signature of Vladimir Zelensky. "Verified" failed to find any of these two posts in verified account We did not find a businessman on the social network X. We did not find other screenshots of any of these publications, and this is especially suspicious, given that, judging by the screen of the screen, at least 35.4 million users saw them (in total, the mask has more than 200 million subscribers in X).

On the image that dispersed through Telegram channels, the date of publication is indicated-November 6 at 07:50. Although it is impossible to reliably establish the time zone in which the author of the screenshot was located, it can indirectly indicate the Russian -speaking interface X. If we assume that Twit was published at 07:50 Moscow time, at that moment the next US president has not yet been named a single large American media (however, Trump has already been the leader, and Musk has already I posted tweets about an imminent victory). At the same time, the earliest publication of the screenshot, which was found "verified", appeared in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel "Kremlin towers"Only at 13:16 Moscow time. This is three and a half hours after Fox News is the first announced About the return of Trump to the White House.

All sources that wrote about the alleged post of Ilon Mask attached the same screenshot: it coincides with the time of publication, the number of remarks, likes, reposts and views. It is noteworthy that the channels that distributed a screen of the screen did not attach a link to the tweet itself, which is why it is not possible to check the saved copies of the post in Internet archive and similar services. “Verified” studied archived copies of the Mask profile in social networks X - the closest to the date of the alleged publication Made November 6 at 16:30 Moscow time, but there is no distributed post on it. 

Probably, the screenshot was faked using images editing programs, and one of the original mask tweets was taken as a basis. The creators of such fakes are often Edit The page code, but in this case, the application of this method is less likely (at least “verified” could not with it add the picture before taking a picture of the screen).

The tweet, which allegedly published Musk, wrote mainly Russian -speaking resources, while not a single authoritative American or Ukrainian publication was reported about the “last dollar for Zelensky”. At the same time, many businessman’s tweets did not go unnoticed by the media and officials, including when the owner of X shared his thoughts about the war in Ukraine. For example, in October 2022 Musk Published The social network has its own peace plan to resolve the conflict, which involved re -conducting referenda in the annexed territories under the control of the UN, the recognition of Crimea part of Russia and the neutral status of Ukraine. Then they told about this initiative Russian, Ukrainian And American The media, and they shared their reaction to her on the same day Zelensky and adviser to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president Mikhail Podolyak.

However, earlier Musk really published posts ridicuating the President of Ukraine. In October 2023, a year after the peaceful plan he proposed, an entrepreneur Laid The picture on which the hero of the famous meme was replaced with Zelensky's face. The signature reads: "When five minutes have passed, and you did not ask for a billion dollars of help." Shortly before the election in the same spirit, Trump spoke, Name Zelensky by the greatest merchant in history. According to the American politician, the Ukrainian president leaves at least $ 60 billion every time after visiting the United States ( data The Kil Institute of the World Economy, which conducts the calculation of assistance allocated to Ukraine, is estimated at € 84.7 billion, Zelensky since 2022, the total support of Kyiv by Washington I went In the United States five times).

Thus, there is no evidence that Musk laid out a tweet about the "last dollar for Zelensky." There is no businessman in the businessman’s blog and, judging by numerous indirect evidence, has never been.

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