| Title: | Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet ‘The USA Needs To Hold An Election. Trump Would Lose By A Landslide’ — Fake Screenshot |
| URL: | https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/03/fact-check-elon-usa-needs-to-hold-election-trump-lose-by-a-landslide.html |
| Publisher: | Lead Stories |
| Date published: | March 8, 2025 |
| Description: | Did Elon Musk tweet “The USA needs to hold an election. Trump would lose by a landslide.” on March 7, 2025? No, that’s not true: The post in question does not appear on Musk’s X account and it was not indexed by Google. A viral screenshot that appears to show such a post bears signs of digital manipulation. |
