Don’t believe this story about Musk paying medical bills for a sick child – it’s fake news

A story about tech billionaire Elon Musk paying the medical bills of a seven-year-old girl with a rare neurological disorder, Lily Thompson, is circulating online – but it’s not true.

The rumour began circulating online this month, with claims that Trump’s “special advisor” Musk, the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), had paid Lily Thompson’s medical bills and arranged for her to have an experimental device, produced by his company Neuralink, implanted in her brain.

In January, Elon Musk announced that three volunteer patients had so undergone implantation of a chip, but the company website stipulates that those who apply for clinical trials must be adults. According to the rumour, which featured an AI-generated image, the implant led to the girl’s full recovery, with archived

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