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Elon Musk suggests his SpaceX company will keep funding satellites in Ukraine

7:05am October 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

Billionaire Elon Musk said in a tweet that his rocket company SpaceX may continue to fund its satellite-based Starlink internet service in Ukraine. Some wondered if he was being sarcastic.

Billionaire Elon Musk's on-again, off-again bid to acquire Twitter advanced this week after he agreed to pay the $44 billion he had originally offered for the social media site.

Politics & Government

Here's what Elon Musk will likely do with Twitter if he buys it

7:30pm October 07, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Musk says he'd loosen rules against spreading misinformation, allow former President Donald Trump back on Twitter, shake up the company's business model and find new revenue sources.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has proposed a peace plan for Ukraine that would involve holding repeat votes under the U.N. auspices in Russia-occupied regions.

World News

Elon Musk's peace plan for Ukraine draws condemnation from Zelenskyy

11:12am October 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Tesla CEO tweeted a plan that includes allowing Russia to keep Crimea, which it seized in 2014. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded that Musk was taking sides with Russia.

Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on data security at Twitter, on Capitol Hill, September 13, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Twitter may have hired a Chinese spy and four other takeaways from the Senate hearing

4:38pm September 13, 2022

Twitter's former security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko accused the company of misleading the public, the government and its own board of directors over security flaws.

Twitter's lawsuit sets the social media company and the world's richest man up for a lengthy, expensive and high-stakes battle.

Twitter takes Elon Musk to court, accusing him of bad faith and hypocrisy

8:30pm July 12, 2022

by Shannon Bond

The social media company is asking a Delaware court to force the world's richest man to follow through on his agreement to buy it for $44 billion.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant near Gruenheide, Germany, on March 22. Musk reportedly wants to lay off 10% of staff because of his worries about the economy.

Economy

Elon Musk has a 'super bad feeling' about the economy and wants Tesla to cut jobs

2:21pm June 03, 2022

by Brittany Cronin

Musk wants the electric auto maker to cut 10% off its staff according to a Reuters report.

National

Elon Musk tells employees to return to the office 40 hours a week — or quit

8:24pm June 01, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

In leaked emails reported by Electrek, Musk says he will review and directly approve any requests for employees who wish to be exempt from the company's return-to-work policy.

Part of the Twitter page of Elon Musk is seen on the screen of a computer in Sausalito, Calif., in April.

National

Elon Musk says doubt about spam accounts could doom Twitter deal

8:30am May 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can't move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the social media platform are fake or spam.

Elon Musk says he wants to see more details about the number of fake accounts on Twitter before his deal to buy the social media platform goes through. He's seen here last week, arriving for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Elon Musk says he's put the blockbuster Twitter deal on pause over fake accounts

6:34pm May 13, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The Tesla and SpaceX mogul said he needs to make sure the fake accounts "do indeed represent less than 5%" of Twitter's users, as the company has estimated.

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Left to right: Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Politics & Government

Elon Musk says he'll reverse Donald Trump Twitter ban

4:19pm May 10, 2022

by Shannon Bond

The billionaire said it was a "mistake" for the social network to ban the former president after the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection.