{"id":1501512,"date":"2022-06-02T15:29:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501512"},"modified":"2022-06-02T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:29:50","slug":"fact-check-did-elon-musk-reveal-that-vladimir-putin-had-a-failed-cancer-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-elon-musk-reveal-that-vladimir-putin-had-a-failed-cancer-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Elon Musk Reveal That Vladimir Putin Had A Failed Cancer Surgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-elon-musk-reveal-that-vladimir-putin-had-a-failed-cancer-surgery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501512&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nobaddayinheaven.heaven.5\/videos\/725410718500614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a failed cancer surgery.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Musk making such a claim.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s health has been the subject of speculation since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in late February, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/backpain-cancer-and-covid-vladimir-putin-top-health-scares-throughout-the-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/putin-and-parkinsons-what-experts-say-about-his-health\/a-61597476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doctors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/vladimir-putin-health-christopher-steele-russia-ukraine-1706878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">intelligence officials<\/a> allege he is ill, perhaps even gravely so.<\/p>\n<p>A May 30 Facebook post claims Musk recently revealed the Russian leader has cancer. \u201cElon Musk JUST LEAKED -Putin\u2019s Cancer Surgery Failed!\u201d reads the post, which includes a nine-minute video about the allegation. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/25\/fact-check-russian-embassy-kenya-press-release-imported-sputnik-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did The Russian Embassy In Kenya Put Out This Press Release About Imported Sputnik V Vaccines?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine many statements about the health of Russian President Vladimir Putin have appeared in the press and social networks,\u201d says the narrator in the video. \u201cThis is confirmed by Elon Musk. The president of Russia recently had a complicated operation and it was probably unsuccessful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, there is no record of Musk revealing any information about Putin\u2019s health. None of the billionaire\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Putin%20(from%3Aelonmusk)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/polititweet.org\/tweets?account=44196397&#038;deleted=True\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mention<\/a> Putin being seriously ill. There are likewise no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Putin+cancer&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=nws&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjRyp_8hI74AhVDSzABHeCUCRgQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&#038;biw=1371&#038;bih=702&#038;dpr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> about Musk making any statements about Putin\u2019s health. Musk did, however, challenge Putin to a fight in a March 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1503327421839417344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1503327421839417344%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F2022%2F03%2F14%2Felon-musk-putin-fight-ukraine%2F7036541001%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous Telegram channel with purported inside information claims Putin did undergo cancer surgery in May, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/02\/vladimir-putin-to-undergo-cancer-surgery-transfer-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post<\/a>. The claim, however, has not been verified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a failed cancer surgery.Verdict: False There is no record of Musk making such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}