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Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s mission to perpetuate misinformation isn’t only a disturbance on customers’ social media timelines. It makes an actual influence on individuals’s lives — and The Bear actress Ayo Edebiri says she has seen it firsthand.
The actress, who has gained Emmy and Golden Globe awards for her position on the FX/Hulu collection, made a put up to her Instagram Tales this week revealing that she acquired “insane loss of life threats” after Musk reshared a pretend information report in February that mentioned Edebiri was changing Johnny Depp in a brand new movie within the Pirates In The Caribbean franchise.
“Simply remembering after I bought a few of the most insane loss of life threats and racial slurs of my life (idk if it’s the #1 second, however for positive prime 3) for a pretend reboot of a film I had by no means even heard of due to this man,” Edebiri posted, alongside a screenshot of Musk’s put up. “LMAO. So not solely is he [a] double Sieg Heil-ing fascist, he’s an fool however anyway.”
Musk reposted the pretend story on Feb. 7 to his account on X, previously often called Twitter, the place he at present has 219.6 million followers. “Disney sucks,” he posted. Whereas his personal put up continues to be on the location, the quoted story has since been deleted from the app.
Ayo Edebiri additionally shared a put up to her Tales agreeing with latest feedback from fellow actor and comic Invoice Burr, who spoke about Musk on an episode of NPR’s Contemporary Air.
“I’m attempting to get common individuals to cease yelling at one another and understand that it’s a choose few group of nerds consuming uncooked almonds and doing their silly exercises and competing with one another to have the most important infinity pool and the remainder of us are getting pushed down,” Burr mentioned on NPR’s Contemporary Air. “They’ve politicized the entire silly factor and we’re falling for it.”
This isn’t the primary time that Musk has been accused of spreading lies on the platform. Since buying the app in 2022 and renaming it to X, Musk has been labeled as a “one-man misinformation machine.” He changed the platform’s earlier moderation measures with the crowd-sourced “group notes” fact-checking system and laid off 1000’s of staff. A research launched in November 2024 by the Heart for Countering Digital Hate discovered that Musk had shared a minimum of 87 posts final yr that fact-checkers categorized as “false” or “deceptive.” Subjects included voter fraud, and claims that the Democrats had been “importing voters.” He additionally donated a reported $288 million to the reelection marketing campaign of Donald Trump, who used opposition to Range, Fairness and Inclusion practices as a central a part of his messaging. Such practices had been designed to advertise truthful therapy of all individuals and to combat discrimination primarily based on race, gender, and incapacity, however Trump labeled them as “unlawful and immoral” upon being reelected to workplace.
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