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Which one is Elon Musk? World’s richest man wants to meet his Chinese lookalike ‘if he is real’
- A man in northern China looks remarkably like Elon Musk, and has grown a social media following as a result
- Musk said he would like to meet the man if he “is not a deepfake”
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American billionaire Elon Musk said he would like to meet a Chinese man who shares a strong resemblance with him and has become an internet celebrity as a result.
Ma Yilong, who lives in Hebei province in northern China, first caught Musk’s attention at the end of last year when a short video of him standing next to a car went viral.
“Maybe I’m partly Chinese!” Musk humorously said on Twitter in December last year.
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On Monday, Musk said, “I’d like to meet this guy (if he is real). Hard to tell with deepfakes these days”, after a Twitter user posted a composite image of Ma and Musk side by side.
One day later, Ma replied on Weibo that, “I am here, and I also want to meet you. I love you. You are my hero.”
Ma Yilong may be a pseudonym because his given name, Yilong, is the Mandarin pronunciation for Elon. The Chinese character for Ma also sounds similar to Musk.
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