Elon Musk gets brutally fact-checked on social media

Elon Musk challenged critics on X this Sunday.

“They cannot cite a single name of someone who died out of the ‘millions’ they falsely claim have died,” Musk wrote on X.

Tesla's CEO has faced intense criticism, as reports indicate his work with the Department of Government Efficiency has led to preventable deaths and might cause millions more by 2030.

His social media post drew thousands of replies, including the names of children as young as three, whose deaths were linked to foreign aid cuts. Most notably, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof confronted Musk on X.

“Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts,” he wrote, and listed the names of numerous victims. "I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts."

Rather than engage with Kristof's response, Musk posted about immigration and other topics.

Musk's own AI chatbot, Grok, contradicted his claim. Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan shared the chatbot's response, listing names of those whose deaths were connected to the aid disruptions.

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