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.
Switching service on or off, refusing it, or using the platforms in disputes with governments.
After Ukraine's defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov asked SpaceX to act against Russian use of Starlink, Musk wrote: Looks like the steps we took to stop the unauthorized use of Starlink by Russia have worked.
Response: Fedorov wrote that the next step was a system that will allow only authorized terminals to operate on the territory of Ukraine.
Responding to excerpts of Walter Isaacson's biography, Musk wrote that there was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol
and that agreeing would have made SpaceX explicitly complicit
in a major act o…
Response: Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak wrote that civilians, children are being killed
as a result. Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev praised Musk on X.
Ukraine
Russia