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Ciara O'Rourke
By Ciara O'Rourke February 4, 2025

No, Elon Musk didn’t ban pride content on X

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  • This claim is unfounded. 

X owner Elon Musk hasn’t said he’s blocking LGBTQ+ content from the social media platform, but recent social media posts claim otherwise.

"Elon Musk shocks the world by blocking Pride on X forever: ‘Children must come first,’" a Jan. 28 Facebook post said. 

This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads.)

We asked X about the claim but didn’t immediately hear back. 

We found no such announcement or a statement about children needing to come first in relation to pride on Musk’s X account, or elsewhere. No credible news reports have covered a pride ban on X. When we searched Feb. 3, posts about LGBTQ+ and pride appeared on X.

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This claim may have originated on a self-described satire page. On Nov. 17, SpaceX Fanclub posted this fabricated headline with Musk’s photo: "Pride content blocked on X permanently ‘protecting kids comes first.’" 

The post was clearly labeled satire.

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We’ve fact-checked other instances of similar satire about Musk that had been reshared without context.

Claims Musk said pride flags should be banned from classrooms forever and that he had blocked Disney’s pride content on X because "‘woke’ isn’t for kids" both started as clearly labeled satire and then spread online without the satire label or clarification.

We rate claims Musk blocked pride content on X because "children must come first" False.

 

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Facebook post, Jan. 28, 2025

Facebook post, Nov. 17, 2024

X search, Feb. 3, 2025

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