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Did Elon Musk say he reinstated Andrew Tate to Twitter in an effort to expose global elites? No — that video’s a deepfake.

The video is a deepfake. It is manipulated from video that originally showed Elon Musk speaking during an April 2022 TED Talk interview months before he bought Twitter. There was mention of Tate during that interview.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is focused on exposing"the global elites." At least, that’s the claim in a video that shows Musk parroting common QAnon conspiracy theory rhetoric.showed a Musk in a slightly blurry, zoomed in video. In the clip, Musk appears to say:"People ask me why I unblocked Andrew Tate from Twitter. It’s the same reason why I bought Twitter. We need to escape the suppression from the matrix and expose the global elites.

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