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Elon Musk pokes fun at ‘Stay Woke’ shirts found at Twitter HQ

Elon Musk is literally cleaning out the closets of Twitter, laughing after finding a stack of unworn “Stay Woke” T-shirts.

The world’s richest man posted a video late Tuesday of him holding up one of the progressive-slogan shirts in a video seen more than 10.2 million times in just hours.
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In the clip, someone can be heard chuckling as Musk, 51, shows stacks of the shirts, one of which Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey had himself worn in 2016.
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“Here we are, at the merch thing, and there’s an entire, entire closet full of hashtag woke T-shirts,” Musk says over his laughing pal, who calls it a “secret closet.”
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Musk further enraged followers with a since-deleted tweet in which he revealed that the shirts he was laughing at “stem from the Ferguson protests” over the 2014 Missouri police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Well, it seems that not even Dorsey stayed as woke as he let people think.

Twitter fact-checks owner Elon Musk over 'Dune' quote

New Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk was fact-checked by his own platform on Tuesday after he falsely attributed a quote to the science fiction epic "Dune."

"Fanaticism is always a function of repressed doubt," Musk tweeted, attributing the saying to Frank Herbert's 1965 novel, which was recently turned into a blockbuster film.

Users quickly pointed out that the quote is actually by the prolific Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung.

The fact check came in the form of Twitter's new Community Notes feature, which aims to "create a better informed world by empowering people on Twitter to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading Tweets."
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"Birdwatch (soon to be renamed Community Notes) has incredible potential for improving information accuracy on Twitter!" the billionaire tweeted.

The feature has been used to flag other powerful individuals, including a tweet by the White House that incorrectly credited President Biden for increasing Social Security payments.

I guess Musk hasn't read the novel in quite some time.