Did Elon Musk Delete a Twitter Thread On 'How Safe Tesla Cars Are'?

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Did Elon Musk Delete a Twitter Thread On 'How Safe Tesla Cars Are'?
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Musk's tweet is currently intact, and we found no evidence that any part of it had been deleted.

that claimed to show evidence that Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted and then deleted a thread consisting of tweets about how safe Tesla cars are. Though he indeed tweeted such a thread on that date, it is not true that he deleted it.

The image supposedly depicted a tweet by Musk —"Thread on how safe Tesla cars are" — followed by at least four tweets marked"unavailable" that he had supposedly deleted. User @SaeedDiCaprio,"still can't believe this happened," adding in a reply,"I really have the most perfectly timed screenshot of all time."

"This tweet is unavailable" is an error message that typically appears when a tweet has been deleted by the original poster. Musk indeed tweeted a"Thread on how safe Tesla cars are" on Jan. 7, 2023, like the screenshot claimed. However, that tweet was not the beginning of a self-authored thread that he later deleted. It was a quote retweet sharing a thread from Tesla's official company Twitter account.

We came to that conclusion by checking Musk's Twitter account and finding a post with a date that matched that in the screenshot: Jan. 7, 2023. We saw it was a

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