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in General Factchecking by Apprentice (1.4k points)
After Elon Musk altered the way verification worked on Twitter, someone impersonated Eli Lilly, a company that provides insulin, with a tweet stating that insulin was now free.

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by Newbie (250 points)
I think this claim is true because historically, Twitter posts have been known to mess with stock prices. Elon musk, in general, has been known to fluctuate his Tesla stocks through his Twitter posts.

Here are some examples:

https://fortune.com/2021/11/09/tesla-stock-elon-musk-tweets-selling-stock-michael-burry-personal-debt/

https://nypost.com/2020/05/01/tesla-shares-drop-after-ceo-elon-musk-tweets-stock-price-is-too-high/
by Innovator (51.5k points)
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Good job finding comparisons to the claim. However, to conduct a fact-check you need to dig deeper to see if Eli Lilly's stock price was affected negatively by a fake Twitter account's post, as the claim suggested.

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