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Elon Musk Look-Alike Banned From Chinese Social Media for Online Interaction with the American Billionaire

Elon Musk Look-Alike Banned From Chinese Social Media for Online Interaction with the American Billionaire
Elon Musk's Twitter profile is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this illustration taken April 28, 2022. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Sophia Lam
Sophia Lam
5/16/2022|Updated: 5/16/2022
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A Chinese man has gone viral on social media for his facial resemblance to Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO. But his Chinese social media account was recently banned by the Chinese authorities.

Dubbed Yilong Ma on social media, Musk’s doppelgänger in China caught the attention of the American billionaire in December 2021, when a short video showed him standing by a car in a garage, with his face looking like a copy of Musk. Elon Musk tweeted humorously on Dec. 20 in a response: “Maybe I’m partly Chinese!”

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Sophia Lam joined The Epoch Times in 2021 and covers China-related topics.
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