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Elon Musk appears to have weighed in on the ongoing controversy surrounding actress Megan Fox.

The billionaire businessman, 51, said in a Tweet Sunday, ‘Looking to hire a VP of Witchcraft & Propaganda,’ after Fox referred to herself as a ‘witch’ amid a social media row with conservative commentator Robby Starbuck, who was critical of how the 37-year-old actress is raising her three sons.

The tweet from the owner of Tesla and Twitter owner garnered a number of responses, including multiple mentions of Fox following her remarks.

In response to one user who told the Pretoria, South Africa native that Fox is ‘bad at propaganda,’ Musk replied, ‘Nobody is perfect.’

Musk’s tweets came a day after Fox furiously hit back at a ‘clout chaser’ who accused her of having ‘forced’ her sons to dress up in girls clothing.

The Transformers actress shares her sons Noah, 10, Bodhi, nine, and Journey, six, with her ex-husband Brian Austin Green.

Robby Starbuck, who ran for U.S. Congress in 2022, claimed to have witnessed two of the former couple’s children say ‘they were forced by their mom to wear girls clothes as their nanny tried to console them.’ 

Starbuck, 34, a Republican from California, tweeted that he ‘used to live in the same gated community’ as the famous family and that their kids ‘played at the park.’ 

Fox fired up her Instagram and lambasted Starbuck for using ‘children as leverage or social currency,’ adding that ‘exploiting my child’s gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe’ and declaring defiantly: ‘you f***ed with the wrong witch.’

Addressing Starbuck directly, she wrote: ‘i really don’t want to give you this attention because clearly youre a clout chaser but let me teach you something…

She fumed: ‘irregardless of how desperate you may become at any given time to acquire wealth, power, success, or fame – never use children as leverage or social currency. especially under malevolent and erroneous pretense.’

Fox doubled down: ‘exploiting my child’s gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe.’

The Jennifer’s Body actress concluded: ‘i have been burned at the stake by insecure narcissistic impotent little men like you many times and yet i’m still here you f***ed with the wrong witch.’ 

Her livid Instagram broadside comes after her ex-husband gave an interview vociferously denying Starbuck’s version of events. 

‘It’s a totally bogus story. There are only a few people in their world that can actually verify whether or not a story like this is true and I can tell you with absolute certainty it is not,’ the Beverly Hills, 90210 star told TMZ. 

He continued: ‘This person trying to claim this is true is a perfect example of someone with selfish motives that does not care about negatively affecting a parent child relationship.’ 

In his original tweet, Starbuck posted a picture of Megan with her children and wrote: ‘These are Megan Fox’s sons. We used to live in the same gated community and our kids played at the park.’

He continued: ‘I saw 2 of them have a full on breakdown saying they were forced by their mom to wear girls clothes as their nanny tried to console them. It’s pure child abuse. Pray for them.’

Green and Fox went public with the collapse of their marriage in May 2020, months after they initially split.

Along with his children by Fox, Green also has a 21-year-old son named Kassius Lijah Marcil-Green from his past relationship with Vanessa Marcil, as well as an 11-month-old baby boy called Zane Walker with his fiancée Sharna Burgess.

In 2019, Fox declared that her eldest ‘doesn’t care’ about being made fun of for wearing dresses to school. 

‘He designs, he draws outfits. He’s very talented, but he’s still six,’ she said during an interview on The Talk. ”He’s really into fashion. He’s the one, like sometimes, he’ll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses, sometimes.’ 

‘And I send him to a really liberal, like hippy school,’ she continued. ‘But even there, here in California, he still has little boys going like, “Boys don’t wear dresses,” or “Boys don’t wear pink.”‘

Despite the taunts from other boys, Fox said she had been teaching her son to follow his own course in life.

‘We’re going through that now, where I’m trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says.’

At the time, the Jennifer’s Body star explained that Noah had briefly stopped wearing dresses, but began wearing them again.

‘He came home and I was like, “How was it? Did any of the friends at school have anything to say?” And he was like, “Well, all the boys laughed when I came in,” but he’s like, “I don’t care, I love dresses too much.”‘

In 2017, Green stood up for his son when Fox shared a photo of Noah wearing a dress from the Disney film Frozen.

‘My son, he’s four,’ he said at the time. ‘I’ve heard from some people that they don’t agree with him wearing dresses. To them I say, I don’t care. He’s four and if he wants to wear it then he wears it.

‘And it’s dresses or goggles or slippers or whatever. It’s his life, they’re not my clothes,’ he continued. ‘I feel like at 4 at 5, that’s a time when he should be having fun. He’s not harming anyone wearing a dress. So if he wants to wear a dress, good on him.’

Michigan football’s Jim Harbaugh is blaming failures in the vetting process for the doomed hiring of legendary Wolverines coach Bo Schembechler’s son, who resigned over offensive tweets only days after joining the athletic department last month. 

‘Once I became aware of things that were offensive — offensive to me, offensive to other members of our team — [we acted],’ Harbaugh said, as quoted by MLive.com. ‘We didn’t want that mindset around.’

Glenn ‘Shemy’ Schembechler stepped down on May 20, just days after he had been hired as assistant director of recruiting on Harbaugh’s staff. The Detroit News reported at the time that Schembechler’s Twitter feed contained posts and likes of offensive material, including some that suggested slavery and Jim Crow were positives to strengthen African-American individuals and families.

‘You should practice readying/comprehension,’ read one post, liked by Shemy. ‘And yes, slavery and Jim Crow forced the black family to strive and create businesses and cultivate a basis for wealth for themselves and their progeny.’

Entering his ninth season as coach at his alma mater, Harbaugh said the program outsourced the vetting to another company, which failed to catch the offending social media posts. 

‘I read the report myself,’ Harbaugh said. ‘We have a company that vets that — social media — and they came back and [cleared him]. We’ve got a new company doing that 1685708054, but they’ve got to be better.

‘I’ll take responsibility for that. If somebody can find that in a day, then we have to be better ourselves.’ 

Harbaugh played quarterback under Bo Schembechler at Michigan before going on to an NFL career and then moving into coaching.

Schembechler played for his father, who coached Michigan from 1969-89, and was later an NFL scout. In a statement released Sunday night, Schembechler said that his life, and that of his father and family, has been devoted to the best in people, regardless of their race or religion. He said he had ‘inexplicably and irresponsibly’ liked items on social media.

‘What I do for a living is far less important than for people to know what is in my heart, and has been … instilled in me by my pioneering father,’ said Schembechler’s statement released by the public relations firm of Rose + Allyn.

‘By inexplicably and irresponsibly liking things on social media I owe an unabashed and unequivocal apology to my hundreds of friends and fellow coaches in the Black community, all communities … . Any words or philosophies that in any way seek to underplay the immeasurable suffering and long-term economic and social inequities that hundreds of years of slavery and the ‘Jim Crow’ era caused for Black Americans is wrong. I was wrong.’

Schembechler went on to apologize ‘profusely’ to anyone he had offended and said he was hoping for ‘forgiveness based on my expansive life’s work, and not any moment of indiscretion.’

‘We are aware of some comments and likes on social media that have caused concern and pain for individuals in our community,’ Harbaugh and athletic director Warde Manuel said in a statement after the younger Schembechler resigned. ‘Michigan Athletics is fully committed to a place where our coaches, staff and student-athletes feel welcome and where we fully support the University’s and Athletic Department’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.’

The Schembechler family has been in the news over the last several years for a pair of scandals.

In addition to Shemy’s emails, there are allegations that Bo ignored complaints of sexual abuse against then-team doctor Robert Anderson, allowing the physician to abuse hundreds of men and some women between 1966 and 2003.

In January of 2022, the school finalized $490 million in settlements with more than 1,000 people who say they were sexually assaulted by a former sports doctor.

Anderson worked at the university from 1966 until his 2003 retirement and was director of the university’s Health Service and a physician for multiple athletic teams, including football. A number of football players and other athletes have come forward to accuse Anderson, who died in 2008, of sexually abusing them.

The issue rocked the campus, where many felt that Bo could have stopped Anderson decades earlier.

In November of 2021, a statue of Schembechler was vandalized with red paint and a message supporting the sexual assault victims.

Written in black on the steps was ‘Bo knew’ and ‘#hailtothevictims,’ which is a reference to the school fight song, ‘[Hail to] The Victors.’

Former Michigan football players have said they told Bo Schembechler in the 1970s about Anderson’s behavior during physical exams.

Schembechler’s other son, Matt, said he told his father that Anderson assaulted him as a child.

However, Glenn Schembechler and Harbaugh both remain skeptical that Bo was aware that Anderson was doing anything unacceptable during exams.

Schembechler, who died in 2006, is hailed as the greatest coach of college football’s winningest program. He led the Wolverines from 1969-89, won 194 games at the school, and had 234 victories including wins over six seasons at Miami of Ohio.