Elon Musk spent $40 million to buy five Super Bowl Commercial ads to promote DOGE.
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Elon Musk didn’t pay $40 million for five DOGE Super Bowl commercials
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A complete list of 2025 Super Bowl ads by Adweek, a marketing magazine, didn’t include a Department of Government Efficiency ad.
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A Google search for a DOGE commercial yielded no results.
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The post’s photo is old and unrelated to Musk purchasing Super Bowl commercials. It shows Musk celebrating buying Twitter in 2022 while drinking bourbon with colleagues, according to the Daily Mail.
As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has worked to shrink the federal government, some social media users said the entrepreneur would use the Feb. 9 Super Bowl to publicize DOGE’s efforts.
"Elon Musk spent 40 million of his own money to buy 5, 30 second long commercial shots during Super Bowl where hes gonna list all the corruption DOGE has found so far," a Feb. 8 Facebook post riddled with grammatical errors said. The post features an image of Musk holding a bottle of bourbon.
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But no such ad appeared during Super Bowl LIX. Adweek, a marketing magazine, didn’t include a DOGE ad in its 2025 complete list of Super Bowl ads
A Google search for a DOGE commercial yielded no results. T-Mobile aired an ad announcing its partnership with Musk’s Starlink, a satellite network that expands high-speed internet access to areas without traditional cellular towers.
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The Facebook post used an old photo that is unrelated to Musk purchasing Super Bowl commercials. It shows Musk celebrating buying Twitter in 2022 while drinking bourbon with colleagues, according to the Daily Mail.
Pro Football Network reported that the claim was amplified by X account @conservativema, which wrote Feb. 7, "Elon Musk is running Super Bowl ads. Reports indicate he’s spending $40 million of his own money on five 30-second commercials that expose government waste, as found by the Department of Government Efficiency." The post has since been deleted.
Two veteran Republican veteran experts told Reuters that Musk has directed cost-cutting efforts toward agencies that President Donald Trump’s administration disagrees with ideologically rather than toward saving taxpayer dollars.
We rate the claim that Musk spent $40 million to buy five Super Bowl commercial ads to promote DOGE False.
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Facebook post (archived), Feb. 8, 2025
Adweek, Super Bowl 59 Ad Tracker: Complete List of 2025 Super Bowl Commercials, Nov. 4, 2024
Austin American-Statesman, Elon Musk’s Starlink was featured in a T-Mobile Super Bowl ad. What it means for customers, Feb. 10, 2025
Pro Football Network, Did Elon Musk Purchase a Super Bowl Commercial? Examining Whether the $404 Billion Head of DOGE Bought Ads During the Big Game, Feb 9, 2025
Reuters, Musk’s DOGE cuts based more on political ideology than real cost cut savings so far, Feb. 12, 2025
Daily Mail, ‘All these damn birds have to go’: What Elon Musk told Twitter lieutenant before tearing down company’s iconic chirpy logo and replacing them with dark gritty X sign - as his biographer lifts the lid on chaotic takeover, Sept. 3 2023
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