Elon Musk Bans Stephen King Permanently From Platform X After He Trolled the Tech Mogul – SATIRE

A fictional rumor that Elon Musk permanently banned Stephen King from X, the social media platform Musk owns,

circulated widely online in the summer of 2024July 2024 with the caption: “Elon Musk Bans Stephen King Permanently From Platform X After He Trolled the Tech Mogul.”

Esspots.com, the site affiliated with the Facebook account. The article stated: Some readers seemed to interpret the rumor as a factual recounting of real-life events.

However, there Rather, the rumor about the purported ban originated with Esspots.com — a website that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature and is a subsidiary of SpaceXMania.com.

A “Rated Satire” badge was displayed in the upper-left corner of the Facebook memeJuly 29 X post by King about former President Donald Trump. In that X post, King claimed,

Republicans torpedoed the bipartisan border bill at Trump’s request,” in reference tonumber of migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-

Mexico border and raise the standards for qualifying for asylum. Musk wrote in response, “Did you read even a summary of that bill? It was a wolf in sheep’s clothing that would have made things worse!”

Esspots.com has a history of making up stories for shares and comments, and SpaceXMania.com uses artificial-intelligence software to create such content.