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Feb 9 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
How Elon Musk’s 16-million-view retweet of a WikiLeaks post may have been the culmination of an information laundering campaign: a thread.
The morning of February 7, 2025 Elon Musk retweeted one of a pair of two Wikileaks posts made two hours prior which had reproduced in screenshot form the portion of a now-corrected Reporters Without Borders (RSF) article which included a false statistic.