“I alone will decide what is true… unless it’s about Tesla stock prices, then let’s keep it vague.”
In yet another bold stand against reality, Elon Musk has vowed to crack down on X (formerly Twitter) users who have committed the heinous crime of fact-checking Donald Trump’s latest “100% totally accurate” claim about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval ratings.
The billionaire, who previously praised X’s “Community Notes” as a way to add crowd-sourced context to misleading posts, is now deeply upset that the feature is being used against his favorite political figures.
“This system is being gamed by governments and legacy media,” Musk declared, without a shred of irony, while simultaneously suggesting that Ukraine’s government shouldn’t be trusted but Trump’s truth-bending skills remain flawless.
Musk to the Rescue – Defending Your Right to Be Misinformed
The controversy began when Trump made the totally-not-made-up claim that Zelensky’s approval rating had collapsed to a mere 4%, a number so specific and absurd that even conspiracy theorists struggled to believe it.
Community Notes users on X were quick to rudely interrupt Trump’s imagination with actual data, pointing out that a real poll from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology suggested Zelensky’s approval rating was closer to 57%.
Naturally, Musk was having none of that.
“It is utterly obvious that a Zelensky-controlled poll about his OWN approval is not credible!” Musk thundered, conveniently ignoring the fact that he also runs polls on his own Twitter account and treats them like the gospel truth.
(A reminder: This is the same man who ran a Twitter poll on whether he should step down as CEO of X… and then ignored the results when people overwhelmingly voted ‘yes.’)
Musk doubled down, claiming that Zelensky was universally despised by Ukrainians, who were “desperate to vote him out”—conveniently ignoring the whole “being in the middle of a war with Russia” thing that makes holding democratic elections slightly more complicated than usual.
“If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election,” Musk opined, failing to mention that Ukraine is literally under martial law because of an ongoing war. But sure, let’s just throw together some polling booths in the middle of a missile strike and see what happens.
The Internet Reacts: “So Fact-Checking Is Illegal Now?”
Naturally, Musk’s sudden anti-fact stance triggered a flood of mockery, disbelief, and sarcastic memes across the internet.
- “If only Musk fact-checked his own posts with the same enthusiasm.”
- “So let me get this straight: Fact-checking a politician is now an offense, but posting literal Kremlin propaganda is just fine?”
- “Wait… does this mean we can finally community-note Elon’s claims about ‘Full Self-Driving’ being just around the corner?”
Even Mark Zuckerberg—who recently scrapped independent fact-checkers at Meta—praised X’s Community Notes system, because when Zuck is the voice of reason, you know things have gone horribly wrong.
Musk’s Love-Hate Relationship With Facts
To be fair, Musk’s war on inconvenient truth isn’t new. Over the past year, he has:
📉 Tanked Tesla stock by tweeting whatever pops into his head
🚀 Claimed that a Neuralink brain chip would be available “soon” (spoiler: it wasn’t)
🤖 Predicted that humanoid robots would replace factory workers by 2022 (still waiting, Elon)
🔋 Promised a “million-mile battery” years ago (which exists only in PowerPoint form)
At this point, Community Notes is Musk’s natural enemy—a pesky feature that keeps ruining perfectly good internet lies with “facts” and “verifiable sources.”
But don’t worry, Musk is working hard to “fix” the problem. Because who needs democracy, truth, or accountability when you can just tweak the algorithm until only your version of reality remains?