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Musk uses fake article to mock AWS outage which caused internet blackout, gets fact-checked
short by Ashley Paul / on Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
Elon Musk used the image of a fake CNBC article, of AWS CEO Matt Garman saying AI is driving 75% of company's production code, to mock AWS' outage that caused internet blackout. Seemingly blaming AI use for the outage, Musk wrote, "You don't say." The billionaire was fact-checked on his own platform, with a Community Note calling the image "digitally-altered".