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This sentence is inaccurate because it misstates when Forbes says Musk became the world's richest person.

Forbes' June 2026 ranking says Musk is worth $835 billion and is the richest person in the world, but it also says that this is "a title he's held since May 2024." The same article further explains that Musk "became the world's richest person yet again in late May 2024 and has held onto the top spot ever since."

That directly contradicts the article's claim that Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world only since 2025. Forbes also reported on May 29, 2024 that Musk had become "the world's richest person again" after xAI's funding round.

So while the June 2026 net-worth figure is consistent with Forbes, the sentence is still factually wrong because it gives the wrong start date for Musk's current stint as the world's richest person.

The timing here is wrong.

CNBC reported on May 25, 2023 that Neuralink had announced it received FDA approval to conduct its first in-human clinical study. Multiple contemporaneous reports placed the approval in May 2023, not September 2023.

September 2023 is associated with Neuralink beginning patient recruitment for its PRIME study, but the FDA approval itself was announced months earlier. That means the article conflates two different milestones: approval in May 2023 and recruitment activity in September 2023.

This sentence gets the timing of Musk's departure as Tesla chair wrong.

The SEC announced the settlement on September 29, 2018, stating that it required "Musk to step down as Tesla's Chairman" and included "Musk's removal as Chairman of the Tesla board." Tesla then named Robyn Denholm as chair on November 8, 2018, and CNBC reported that the appointment was effective immediately.

So Musk did not resign as chair in May 2020 as part of the SEC settlement. The settlement and resulting chairmanship change occurred in 2018.

This number is contradicted by the Musk Foundation's latest publicly available tax filing data.

ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer, which states its Form 990 data comes from the IRS, lists the Musk Foundation's fiscal year ending December 2024 with Net Assets: $462,970,680 and Total Assets: $462,970,680. That is roughly $463 million, not more than $14 billion.

The article's figure appears to be off by more than an order of magnitude.