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Elon Musk’s Chinese Doppelganger Banned from Social Media

May 18, 2022
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Elon Musk’s Chinese Doppelganger Banned from Social Media
Elon Musk (Source: Tesla)

Recently, a Chinese man who resembled Tesla’s founder Elon Musk caused heated discussion on major social platforms in China. His accounts, however, on Weibo and ByteDance’s Douyin, have been banned.

Under the screen name “Ma Yilong 0”, he released his first video emulating Musk in December 2021 and subsequently became very popul…

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