Facebook verified a fan page posing as Elon Musk

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Author: Jay Peters

This is the fan page verified as Elon Musk.

A Facebook fan page for Elon Musk with 153,000 followers has been verified as the official page representing the Tesla Technoking — in violation of Facebook’s own rules.

To be clear, the page isn’t pretending it’s Musk; it openly states that it’s a fan page in its About section (emphasis ours):

Musk owns a Tesla Roadster car 0001 (the first one off the production line) from Tesla Motors, a company in which he is an early investor. The Roadster is a battery electric sportscar with a 220 mile range.

This is a fanpage, uploading tweets etc from him

Here is the page’s description, which states it’s a fan page.

There are only 10 posts on the page, with the earliest dating from October 21st. One is a photo of Musk, one...

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