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South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
Elon Musk has repeatedly said he “hasn’t inherited anything ever” and that he never received large financial gifts; multiple interviews and his own tweets are cited in reporting echoing that claim . O...
Claims that Elon Musk’s ancestors were Nazis stem from reporting and commentary linking his maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, and other family members to far-right or pro-apartheid views; several...
Elon Musk has repeatedly stated he “haven’t inherited anything ever” and denies receiving large financial gifts; multiple reports cite his claims that his parents did not provide a major inheritance ....
Elon Musk’s fortune was overwhelmingly created by his own startups and later equity in Tesla and SpaceX, with his parents providing modest, contested early financial help rather than a decisive inheri...
Multiple fact‑checking outlets and summaries of reporting say there is no credible evidence that Michelle Obama is transgender; the recurring “Michelle is a man” story originated on fringe blogs and s...
Elon Musk is widely portrayed as “self-made,” but multiple sources argue that label is misleading because he benefited from family wealth, early investor support, and substantial government contracts;...
Conspiracy claims that Michelle Obama is secretly a man have circulated for more than a decade and continue to resurface in 2024–2025; multiple fact‑checking outlets and reporting say the specific vir...
Courts and authorities have not been prominently reported as punishing or litigating the long-running false claims that Michelle Obama is transgender or otherwise misidentified; major fact‑checkers an...
Multiple outlets and fact‑checkers report that the longrunning conspiracy claiming Michelle Obama is a man was amplified by a mix of social‑media users, conservative commentators and some public figur...
Errol Musk has publicly disputed Elon Musk’s description of an unhappy, modest childhood and has been quoted claiming Elon traveled to school in a Rolls‑Royce; this claim appears in multiple news repo...
Michelle Obama has not publicly responded to the ; reporting shows the claims were propagated by Errol Musk and online “transvestigation” communities and were met primarily with public pushback and fa...
Elon Musk publicly denied that his hand gesture was a deliberate Nazi salute, describing it as an enthusiastic, unintentional motion and urging critics to use “better dirty tricks,” while some civil-s...
Multiple established fact‑checking organizations—including Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and the Associated Press—have repeatedly examined and dismissed the claim that Michelle Obama is transgende...
The claim that Michelle Obama "is really a man" is a baseless conspiracy that has been repeatedly debunked by fact‑checkers, scholars and multiple news outlets; there is no credible evidence supportin...
The claim that Errol Musk (Elon Musk’s father) said Elon Musk and the European royal family asked him is unsupported by the available recent reporting: none of the examined articles mentions such a st...