There is no evidence Elon Musk has said he is buying Snapchat

By PA Reporters
12:10 - December 09, 2022

Several posts online, including this one, appear to show a screenshot of a tweet from Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk saying is buying Snapchat next.

Evaluation: False

There is no evidence Elon Musk has said he is buying Snapchat. The posts are being circulated by parody accounts, contain only a screenshot which can easily be faked, and there is no evidence any such tweet existed.

The facts

One of the posts circulating the apparent screenshot contains the description “Meme rapscallion | Meme Squad” in the profile, suggesting it is a parody account.

Archived versions – where a record of a web page as it existed at a particular moment in time is permanently saved – of this profile page here also show the description has previously read: “I make crappy memes”.

The tweet circulating the screenshot also shows the apparent tweet was dated 05:25am on November 26. An archived version of Musk’s profile page, taken at 14:37 on November 26, here shows no sign of the tweet making the claim.

An advanced search on Twitter looking for any tweets from Elon Musk mentioning “buying Snapchat” also shows no results here.

And an announcement by Musk that he was planning to buy Snapchat, so close to his acquisition of Twitter, would have made global headlines, but a search on Google News shows no results about any announcement.

Links

The claim (Archived version)

Profile page screenshot

Profile page as of February 16, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter feed (Archived version as of 14:37 on November 26 2022)

Advanced Twitter search (Archived version)

Google News search (Archived version)

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