Elon Musk’s friend said that all traffic lights were issued and that bread costs $ 50 to Johannesburg. Grok and social media users show the opposite.

Elon Musk triggered an online backlash after sharing a message from a friend saying that each traffic lights in Johannesburg, South Africa is broken and that a bread miche costs $ 50 – breeds that were quickly demystified by X AI Bot Grok users and South African social media users.

Friday, Musk republished a screenshot on X of an anonymous friend currently in South Africa.

The message painted a serious and racial image of Johannesburg and the broader South African society, alleging the collapse of extreme infrastructure, the corruption of the rampant government and the graphic violence attributed to black residents.

The note described Johannesburg as having “not a” work traffic fire and said that a miche of bread costs 1000 R1000 (~ $ 50), citing corruption in Baragwanath hospital as an example.

Shortly after the Musk tweet, users of Johannesburg and the surrounding area began to publish photos and videos in real time to demystify the claims.

X User The Tech Buddha published a video of an intersection by Johannesburg with visibly functional traffic lights.

X User shudufhadzo.btcalso shared a video traffic lights in Johannesburg.

“I volunteer to roll around Joburg on the live flow so that you can rest with the lies”, they subtitled the image.

In addition, Grok, the Bot AI of Musk, checked the facts after being invited by a user. “A miche standard bread in South Africa costs approximately R16 to R19 ($ 0.83 to 0.98 USD),” he wrote.

No credible report supports the complaint of an R1000 bread or hospital corruption described on this scale.