It Seems Elon Musk Has Something to Say About Politics
Like any good entrepreneur who found early success in one market, Elon Musk is now starting to expand to others. Yesterday, Musk—the entrepreneur turned Donald Trump megadonor—hosted a livestream on X with Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany’s far-right political party, Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD.
Elon Musk uses X to roast European leaders, promote the far right
WASHINGTON − Elon Musk is keeping the pressure on European leaders. Musk frequently wields his 211.5-million-follower account on X, the social media platform he bought for $44 billion in 2022, to air political grievances and promote far-right issues.
Elon Musk Investigated in Europe Amid 'Interference'
Elon Musk is being investigated in Europe amid concerns the billionaire's influence, for instance through his posts on X, constitutes an "interference" in upcoming elections. Newsweek has contacted Musk via the press office of X,
Musk and the new political playbook
And are his interventions reframing political discourse – not just in Britain but in other European nations too? Political Fix delves into the X owner’s motivations and examines the impact his actions are having offline as well as online.
Musk Creates a Political Earthquake Over UK Scandal. Good
Has any (unelected) figure come to huge power with such rapidity as Elon Musk? Aside from becoming Donald Trump's consigliere and thefounder of United Airlines' new main Wi-Fi provider, Musk has startedusing his massive platform on X,
Elon Musk Livestreams Chat With German Far-Right Leader
The U.S. tech billionaire said on Thursday's X livestream that he was "strongly recommending that people vote for AfD."
As Los Angeles burns, Elon Musk stokes partisan outrage
As flames engulf swaths of Los Angeles, Elon Musk is wielding X to stoke partisan outrage and conspiracy theories about the ...
Why Has Mark Zuckerberg Copied Elon Musk?
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the ...
Musk’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Gets a Boost From Lina Khan’s FTC
While they didn't support Musk's allegations directly, the feds added weight to his interpretation of antitrust law.
Elon Musk says AI has already gobbled up all human-produced data to train itself and now relies on hallucination-prone synthetic data
The cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted in AI training,” Musk said. “That happened basically last year.” ...
Elon Musk boosts German far right party with live event on X
The publicity was a potential boon for AfD, which has been frozen out of mainstream politics, in part, because its leaders ...
Elon Musk now has a new, lower target number for DOGE’s budget cuts
Elon Musk walked back his previous claim that he could cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, saying Wednesday ...
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Elon Musk Blames LA Wildfires on Black Firefighters
Instead of mourning the dead and the devastating destruction that has befallen the city of Los Angeles due to raging ...
Elon Musk says DOGE saving $2 trillion in budget cuts is a 'best-case outcome'
Elon Musk told the political strategist Mark Penn that if DOGE tried to cut $2 trillion, it'd have a "good shot" of ending up ...
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Elon Musk Tweets Being Investigated By UK Counter-Extremism Unit
The British government’s counter-extremism unit is reportedly investigating Elon Musk after his vocal condemnation of Labour ...
Liverpool not for sale despite Elon Musk's interest; Fenway Sports Group reportedly dismisses 'rumors'
Businessman Errol Musk claimed that his son, billionaire Elon Musk, is interested in buying Liverpool FC, though there is no ...
How Elon Musk’s xAI is quietly taking over X
Musk has been using this distribution channel since xAI launched its first version of the Grok large language model, adding ...