Elon Musk has made a number of exaggerated or unevidenced claims during an Oval Office event alongside President Donald Trump.
The billionaire, who was making his first major media appearance since beginning his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), said his team was seeking to improve transparency in government.
But he provided no evidence when making sweeping statements about corruption in government agencies and also defended false allegations he had spread about US funds being used to send condoms to Gaza.
BBC Verify has examined these claims made by Musk.
Musk was challenged by a reporter about a recent White House claim, which he has repeated, that it had stopped $50m (40.2m) worth of condoms being sent to the Gaza Strip.
The reporter asked whether the condoms were actually due to be sent to Gaza Province in Mozambique.
Musk appeared to concede that could be the case, and responded: "I'm not sure we should be sending $50m dollars on condoms anywhere… if it went to Mozambique instead of Gaza, I'm like, OK that's not as bad, but still you know why are we doing that?"
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