India, Oct. 3 -- Elon Musk is facing flak on social media after he replied to, and in turn helped amplify, a post on X that made a bizarre claim that the British never ruled India. Although the world's richest person simply responded to the post with a 'thinking' emoji, Musk's reply still faced backlash for engaging with the claim.

The original post by X user @StefanMolyneux read, "If Indians set foot in England and become English. Then the English who set foot in India became Indian. Therefore the English did not rule India. There is no such thing as 'colonization'." An image of several Indians and British people together, along with a few roosters, was also attached to the post.

The Tesla billionaire shared the post by replying with a...