Legacy Media Fact-Check Lies: Musk’s Gesture Actually No Different From Democrats’ Gestures

Look at the legacy media lying with their fact checks again, hypocritically calling attention to the context of Democrat leaders’ Nazi salute-looking hand positions while ignoring the context of Musk’s own hand gesture. Their refusal to grant Musk the same degree of context demonstrates just why the legacy media deserves to have lost the public’s trust.

Newsweek claims to have done a fact check of the right-wing claim that still-frame images of Democratic Party leaders (Obama, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton & Elizabeth Warren) with hands in positions similar to that of a supposed Nazi-salute prove that what Musk did was normal. Newsweek claims that the Democratic Party leaders’ “images have been stripped of context”.

Newsweek, for example, quotes what Elizabeth Warren was saying at the time of her hand gesture, thanking “Massachusetts for the great honor of serving you as your Senator”.

But does Newsweek ever quote what Elon Musk was saying at the time of his hand gesture?

Yup. You guessed. No, Newsweek does not.

These legacy media fact checkers refuse to grant Elon Musk the same context they give to Democratic Party leaders.

Here is what Elon Musk said:

“This election really mattered. And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you! [First gesture, hand to heart, then hand goes out to the…