Some Instagram users have wondered whether Twitter owner Elon Musk responded to a tweet alleging the Ku Klux Klan “never did anything wrong to Black people” by saying: “Looking into this … “
In an image shared on Instagram, it looks as if Musk said that in response to a tweet by an account called “Hitler did nothing wrong” with the Twitter handle “@ilikegroomingchildren.”
“Hitler didnn’t hate Jews,” the supposed @ilikegroomingchildren tweet said. “LGBT are all pedophiles children can consent I once saw a *racial slur* slap a white guy… and WE are the minorities…?”
“Is this real?” one Instagram user wrote in response to the supposed exchange.
The Instagram post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)
We found no evidence that @ilikegroomingchildren is or was a real Twitter account, nor that Musk responded to someone tweeting that the KKK “never did anything wrong to Black people.”
Rather, this seems like an effort to pan Musk for responding to other users in a similar manner. The formatting and type in the image don’t match those employed on the real Twitter platform.
For example, he said “looking into it” in response to complaints that a 2024 presidential election denier had been wrongly blocked from Twitter and from conservative accounts that have shared misinformation.
We rate claims that Musk responded “looking into this” to this particular tweet False.
