FACT CHECK: Musk Did Not Fund Surgery For 7-Year-Old With Rare Neurological Disorder

A viral post shared on Facebook claims Tesla CEO Elon Musk purportedly funded medical care, including surgery, for Lily Thompson, a 7-year-old with a rare neurological disorder.

Verdict: False

The claim originally stems from a March 23 article published by news.citestesitu.com. Content detection scans using GPTZero and QuillBot indicate the article text has been generated using artificial intelligence (AI).

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The Facebook post, which has received over 1,000 likes as of writing, claims Musk purportedly funded medical care, including surgery, for Thompson, a 7-year-old with a rare neurological disorder. The same post claims Thompson purportedly had a Neuralink brain chip implanted to “repair damaged neural connections” as a result of a degenerative brain disorder she was diagnosed with at three years old.

A March 23 article published by news.citestesitu.com repeats the claim. (RELATED: Did Vice President JD Vance Say Elon Musk Is ‘Making Us Look Bad?’)

The claim is false. Check Your Fact conducted a content detection scan of the article text using GPTZero, and the results indicate the article is 100% AI-generated. A second content detection scan using QuillBot produced a slightly different rating, claiming only 62% of the article text is likely to be AI-generated.

Likewise, Check Your Fact performed an advanced search of Musk’s verified X account @elonmusk and did not find any reference to 7-year-old Lily Thompson. In addition, Check Your Fact did not find any credible news reports to support the claim. If Musk, a public figure, had truly funded medical care for a sick child, multiple media outlets would’ve covered it, yet none have.

Actually, the opposite is true. Both Lead Stories and Snopes debunked the claim, indicating the purported story about Musk helping Thompson is AI-generated.

This is not the first time a false claim about Musk has circulated online. Check Your Fact previously debunked a viral post shared on Facebook that claimed Musk said, “Tesla is doomed.”