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Elon Musk is not a big fan of Facebook, but does the Tesla and SpaceX CEO really plan on purchasing the social media platform just so he can delete it? That was the conceit of a satirical article published on the website alternative-science.com in March 2018: This article has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media, and many readers appear to have mistaken in for a genuine news report. This piece was a purely satirical article published in the wake of Musk's decision to delete the Facebook pages of his Tesla and SpaceX companies in March 2018. At the time, Musk wrote on Twitter that the social media platform gave him the willies: The Alternative-Science piece fooled a number of readers, even though the website includes multiple indicators that its content is satirical in nature. For one, the About section on the web site's Facebook page notes that its articles contain alternative facts that may not be true or accurate: The article was also written by satirist James Schlarmann, who is also responsible for the political humor web site The Political Garbage Chute. A blurb about Schlarmann at the bottom of this article states that readers definitely should not give that much of a shit about his opinions. Telsa CEO Elon Musk truly said that Facebook gave him the willies, but he did not present a plan to a roomful of investors to buy the social media company, nor use rockets to push a giant delete button in order to get rid of it.
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