In November 2024, a billionaire published a meme hinting at his desire to purchase an American MSNBC television channel. On the same day, users of social networks distributed a video in which his host Rachel Maddow emotionally reacted to the joke of the mask. We checked the reliability of such publications.

On November 24, entrepreneur Ilon Musk posted on his page in his social network X provocative meme About the liberal television channel MSNBC. In the picture on the buttocks of the girl of light behavior, the media logo is imposed, and on the image of the monk - the signature "Ilon Musk opposes the temptation to buy." The businessman in his tweet added: “Don’t enter us into temptation ...” On the same day, a video spread on social networks on which one of the main leading MSNBC Rachel Maddow allegedly reads the news of the mask post, and then says that she is forced to complete the air. Telegram channels Commented The video is like this: “Musk has already expressed a desire to acquire a channel and shake the entire liberal soul from it. And he wants to start with the dismissal of the headliner of the channel Rachel Maddou. In the video - the host itself, which is indicatively sick at the sight of that very meme. " Other users explainedthat Maddou "cries because of his possible fate." The alleged fragment of the recent MSNBC broadcast published Telegram channels "Zlaya Pruf"(251,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Bankst"(125,000) and"The goat screamed"(105,000), as well as users"VKontakte" Facebook, YouTube and other platforms.

November 20 Comcast media holding announced The plans to allocate several channels belonging to him in a separate company, including MSNBC, hoping to increase their profits and ratings against the background of the fall in the popularity of cable television. November 22 Donald Trump is the youngest, the son of the chosen president of the United States and an active supporter of his father, reputed In the social network X, a picture with the inscription “MSNBC is put up for sale”, the mask tugged and wrote: “I have the funniest idea in history.” This is an entrepreneur answered: "What is the price?" Users X notedthat the behavior of the billionaire reminds them of 2018 when Musk was considering the purchase of Twitter (he Implemented idea four years later, and in 2023 renamed social network).

On the eve of the Presidential elections in the United States, MASK, publicly and financial Supporting Trump, Critical MSNBC, calling it a "complete discharge." He claimed that the liberal channel promotes impudent propaganda, and on November 21 wrote In X: "Now MSNBC is going to the bottom." When Trump after winning the election announcedthat will appoint a billionaire the co -chair of the new Department of Efficiency of the US Government, the leading Canal Rachel Maddou She said: In this case, the federal authorities should not conduct business with the Mask company - and thereby caused attacks from the Trumpists. However, for the journalist they were not the first - Maddow is known for his liberal position and criticism Trump. Russian -speaking pro -Kremlin accounts characterize Its as one of the main media persuctions Mask, Trump, conservatives, republicans, anti -globalism, Russia, etc.

The name Maddou was mentioned in X and when discussing the possible purchase by MSNBC. November 23 in response to a tweet mask Podkaster and supporter of Trump Joe Rogan wrote: “If you buy MSNBC, I would like to take a place Rachel Maddou. I will wear the same clothes and glasses and will say the same lie. ” "Agreed", - reacted businessman. On the same day, a parody account @lonmuskado published this tweet: “I would like to dismiss Rachel Maddow (for fun), and then turn MSNBC into a channel that would have reported the top news from X every day.” Many other users and even the Republican Party sympathetic Fox News They took this joke for a real tweet of a billionaire.

It was against this background that the very same videoWhere Maddou allegedly tries to tell the audience about the Masnbc mask plans to buy. The dick on the screen says: "Musk published a dangerous meme." When Maddow, presumably, sees the image, her voice begins to tremble. She asks to display the picture on the screen, and the audience is demonstrated by the same meme With a half -naked girl and monk from the owner of the owner H. After that, the presenter cries and completes the broadcast.

However, Maddow's reaction has nothing to do with the possible purchase of a magician and the meme published by him. Video with her participation is taken from ether MSNBC for June 20, 2018. Then the journalist tried to tell the audience, as in accordance with immigration laws Trump, who then held the presidency, with illegal migrants They took it away Children were taken to shelters. Maddow could not read the news to the end due to emotions that had overwhelmed her and asked to switch the broadcast to another host.

On the left are the frames of the real broadcast of MSNBC for 2018, on the right are the frames of the changed video from social networks. Source: Reuters

For the first time changed video appeared November 24 in the English -language segment of Instagram. Instead of the original headline of the plot “AR: the smallest children are sent to shelters for“ tender age ”in Texas” the creators of the fake wrote: “Mask published a dangerous meme” - and added a provocative picture from tweet businessman. At this moment, audio is disconnected, and in the original Maddou just speaks of migrant children.

In Runet, this video gained popularity after the publication of the Telegram channel "The goat screamed", Posted on November 24 at 13:03 Moscow time. After almost five hours, the author of the channel Added: "Vidos is mounted, but does not change the essence of the matter." But by that time, the video has already begun to spread through other channels without an appropriate disc shi, gaining hundreds of thousands of views.

Thus, the video where the host of MSNBC emotionally reacts to the news about the possible purchase of the TV channel Ilon Mask was mounted. Its basis was a fragment of the broadcast of six years ago, when Rachel Maddow read the news about the implementation of Trump's migration laws.

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