A post online features French writer and philosopher Voltaire along with a purported quote by him. The quote is from an American white nationalist.

Elon Musk shared a quote supposedly from French philosopher Voltaire on Saturday to make a joke about kids with leukemia. But it's completely fake.

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" is a paraphrase of words written by a neo-Nazi.

Voltaire was enabled to become an old and famous aristocrat by his lottery winnings. Flickr Francois-Marie Arouet, better-remembered by his pen name “Voltaire,” was born on this day in 1694 ...

More himself seems to have written Utopia mostly as a joke, or a satirical send up of European society at the time, given that the book is full of humorous asides.

A gem of restrained outrage, Voltaire’s novella speaks powerfully to us in this time of pandemics, floods, conspiracy theories and growing incivility.

A quote shared on social sites is wrongly attributed to the French writer and philosopher Voltaire. White nationalist Kevin Alfred Strom penned the quote.

The writer's classic 18th-century work took aim at intolerance in the Catholic Church. Now it's flying off the shelves as the French seek answers following deadly shootings by Islamic extremists.