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Sep 12 2023
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Elizabeth Warren calls for an investigation into Musk and Starlink in Ukraine after biography claim
Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for a probe Tuesday following a claim that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk curbed a Ukrainian military operation aimed at Russia’s Black Sea fleet last year by limiting access to SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network, a report said.
“Congress needs to investigate what’s happened here, and whether we have adequate tools to make sure foreign policy is conducted
CNBCSep 30 2023
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Musk Visits Texas-Mexico Border, Weighing In on Migration Issue
Elon Musk visited the border between Texas and Mexico late Thursday, briefly live-streaming as he entered another US political debate, this one about migration.
“As an immigrant to the United States I’m extremely pro immigrant,” said Musk, who was born in South Africa. “By the same token, we should not be allowing people into the country if they are breaking the law.”
The
BloombergSep 30 2023
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Elon Musk livestreams border to give people firsthand account of migrant crisis
Tech billionaire Elon Musk visited the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday with plans to livestream a tour of the area to give people a sense of the real situation with the ongoing migrant crisis.
Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX and X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has shown significant interest in the ongoing crisis along the border and has been
Fox News (Online News)Sep 08 2023
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New book says Musk ordered Starlink satellites turned off during Ukrainian attack
A new biography of billionaire Elon Musk sheds light on how much control the tech mogul had over the war in Ukraine.
The book, written by biographer Walter Isaacson, says Mr. Musk secretly told his engineers last year to deactivate a Starlink network on the Crimean coast before a Ukrainian sneak attack against Russian forces in the area.
The Ukrainian military was using the
Washington TimesSep 05 2023
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Elon Musk's feud with the Anti-Defamation League has been brewing all year
Elon Musk is threatening a defamation suit against the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish civil rights group, saying the group’s calls for advertisers to pause their spending on the platform formerly known as Twitter were based on false accusations that have financially damaged the company. The billionaire owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, said he had no choice but to sue the
QuartzSep 05 2023
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'Free speech absolutist' Elon Musk threatens Anti-Defamation League with defamation lawsuit
'Free speech absolutist' Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The group has allegedly tried to "kill" the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, with false accusations of antisemitism and advertiser boycotts, according to Musk. In a series of posts, the billionaire said that the ADL's pressure campaign on advertisers to leave X over its content
ReasonSep 21 2023
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Michael Bloomberg Plans to Spend $500 Million to Shut Down All US Coal Plants
New York City's former mayor and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg doubled down on his plans to shut down fossil-fuel burning power plants, putting up another $500 million for the effort.
His "Beyond Carbon" campaign aims to "finish the job on coal" and "shut down every last U.S. coal plant," Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Wednesday. It also aims to shutter natural gas-
The MessengerSep 19 2023
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Media’s political divide plays out in Maine
Local media in the state of Maine has emerged as an unlikely and asymmetric battlefield for big American political money.
Two of the country’s key left-leaning political spenders, George Soros’s Open Society Foundation and the medical device billionaire philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss, played a central — and previously unreported — role in the nonprofit purchase of nearly two dozen
SemaforJul 24 2023
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Elon Musk’s Pivot to X Draws Strong Opinions Across Twitter
Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to X elicited excitement, exasperation and effrontery from users as they adjusted to the billionaire’s latest change in remaking the social-media platform he acquired last year. Reactions in the Twitterverse after Musk’s Sunday announcement ranged from dismay at Musk bringing an end to Twitter’s globally recognized blue bird brand to jokes and sarcasm about
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 21 2023
Fact Check
No, Congress Did Not Call for an Investigation Into Elon Musk’s Actions Regarding Starlink and Crimea
A post shared on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, claims that Congress called for an investigation into billionaire Elon Musk’s actions regarding Starlink, Ukraine and Crimea.
Verdict: Misleading
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for a probe into Musk’s actions, not the entire Congress.
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Musk refused to allow Ukraine to use
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