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Elon Musk and governments worldwide

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.

Compiled by Starlink Watch editors · Updated

212entries
44countries and the EU
147with an official response
35with a fact-check or court finding
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2025 1

Threats

Media Matters sues X to halt its suits in Ireland and Singapore, says litigation forced layoffs

Media Matters sued X in San Francisco, calling X's suits in Texas, Ireland (filed December 2023) and Singapore (July 2024) a vendetta-driven campaign of libel tourism and arguing X's own terms required cases to be filed in San Francisco. Twitter UK had also…

Response: X had since amended its terms of service to require disputes to be filed in the Northern District of Texas. Media Matters left X in January 2026, objecting to new terms it said attempted to apply ret…

United StatesIrelandSingaporeUnited Kingdom4 sources

2023 1

Attacks on officialsPost

Musk says Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar 'hates the Irish people' after Dublin riots

Responding to a user who said the Irish government wanted all of your freedoms, Musk wrote that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hates the Irish people. In a second post he wrote that the Irish government 'clearly cares more about praise from woke media than their…

Response: Varadkar said existing incitement-to-hatred legislation was not up to date for the social-media age and that platforms and individuals posting hateful content both bear responsibility (Business Ins…

Ireland3 sources