The Musk tracker
A sourced record of 212 statements and actions by Elon Musk and his companies since 2022: interventions in the politics, governments, courts and regulation of 43 countries and the European Union, threats and legal action against critics, and the use of market power against competitors. Each entry sets out what he said or did, the background, the response and what happened next.
Claims about countries that governments, courts or fact-checkers disputed or found false.
Musk reposted a post by Britain First co-leader Ashlea Simon showing a purported Telegraph headline that Starmer was considering emergency detainment camps
on the Falkland Islands for rioters, adding 'Detainment Camps'…
. He deleted it within about 30 minu…
Response: The Telegraph said it had published no such article and that Starmer had considered no such thing.
United Kingdom3 sourcesResponding to footage of rioting in England, Musk posted Civil war is inevitable.
Over the following days he tagged Prime Minister Keir Starmer in posts including Why aren't all communities protected in Britain?
and #TwoTierKeir
.
Response: Starmer's spokesman said There's no justification for comments like that
; justice minister Heidi Alexander called the posts deeply irresponsible
; Technology Secretary Peter Kyle described Musk to…
United Kingdom3 sources