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chucker · 2022-07-11, 09:14

Yes… there was an account eIonmusk (upper-case i instead of lower-case L).

A journalist apparently fell for it, wrote a story (now a 404 because Independent.ie apparently doesn't have journalistic integrity), and others copied without checking.

chucker ‽ Join Date: May 2004 Location: near Bremen, Germany	2022-07-11, 09:14 Yes… there was an account eIonmusk (upper-case i instead of lower-case L). A journalist apparently fell for it, wrote a story (now a 404 because Independent.ie apparently doesn't have journalistic integrity), and others copied without checking.
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