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.
The Daily Jagran reported: US Media's Reality Check Over 'Falling Global Trust In America' As Musk Targets India Over Starlink License.
United States1 sourcesKXLY.com reported: Elon Musk and U.S. Government point fingers at each other amid Starlink outage.
United States1 sourcesT-Online reported: USA News | Trump: Neither I nor Musk responsible for Starlink failure.
United States1 sourcesMusk's attorney Alex Spiro sent Jigsaw Productions a letter dated 3 September warning that Alex Gibney's documentary Musk
defames him and ordering preservation of footage, transcripts, research files and internal communications. The letter also named HBO, B…
Response: Jigsaw said its right to engage in open debate and fact-based examinations of powerful public figures
is protected by the First Amendment, and that Musk's associates, who have called themselves "fr…
United States3 sourcesAmerica PAC reported more than $800,000 in spending supporting Republicans in over a dozen competitive Senate and House races, its first 2026-cycle spending, after reports that Musk authorised $100–120 million for midterm turnout efforts (Reuters; The Nationa…
Response: Rachel Petri, campaign manager for Democrat Chris Pappas, said MAGA Republicans like Elon Musk are trying to buy this Senate seat for John Sununu
(Reuters).
United States2 sourcesMusk resolved the SEC's Twitter disclosure suit through a settlement under which a revocable trust in his name pays a $1.5 million civil penalty; the SEC dropped its claims against Musk personally and its demand for about $150 million in disgorgement.
Response: Judge Sooknanan approved the deal despite its significant misgivings,
writing that the SEC's decisions raise red flags
but the court may not step in the shoes of the SEC
(Bloomberg).
United States2 sourcesThe US Space Force awarded SpaceX $4.16 billion for the Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator programme, a sensing layer of the Golden Dome missile shield, days after a separate $2.29 billion satellite-communications award (Reuters).
Response: The Space Force said the programme was projected to field a constellation of satellites by 2028
(Reuters).
United States3 sourcesSen. Elizabeth Warren wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth questioning a $200 million Pentagon agreement with Musk's xAI, one of four such awards announced in July 2025, and asked whether officials discussed it with Musk while he was a special government e…
Response: A Pentagon spokesperson said the department responds directly to the author
; xAI did not respond (DefenseScoop).
United States3 sourcesFCC Chairman Brendan Carr closed investigations into EchoStar's spectrum licences on the day EchoStar announced it would sell AWS-4 and satellite spectrum to SpaceX for about $17 billion, half in cash and half in stock (Broadband Breakfast).
Response: An FCC spokesperson said the deals hold the potential to supercharge competition
(Broadband Breakfast). A Wall Street Journal editorial later wrote: "President Trump prodded Chairman Carr to let Er…
United States5 sourcesX and xAI sued Apple and OpenAI in federal court in Texas, alleging that their ChatGPT partnership locked up markets to protect their monopolies, that Apple deprioritised rival AI apps in App Store rankings and that it slowed reviews of Grok updates. They sou…
Response: OpenAI said the filing was consistent with Mr. Musk's ongoing pattern of harassment.
Sam Altman had earlier asked Musk to sign an affidavit that he had never directed changes to X's algorithm to hu…
United States5 sourcesX disclosed a tentative settlement of a proposed class action by former employees claiming $500 million in unpaid severance after Musk's 2022 layoffs of about 6,000 people. In early October 2025 it also settled a $128 million suit by ex-CEO Parag Agrawal and…
Response: Musk and X denied wrongdoing and said the executives were fired over their performance.
United States3 sourcesMusk posted that When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy
and Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom,
following an X poll on whether to create a party.
Response: Trump said I think it's ridiculous to start a third party
and Third parties have never worked
; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Musk's company boards did not like this announcement
(Reuter…
United States3 sourcesMusk wrote that members of Congress who campaigned on cutting spending and then voted for the bill would lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.
Response: Asked about deporting Musk, Trump said I don't know, we'll have to take a look
and We might have to put Doge on Elon
(The National).
United States2 sourcesDuring a public feud, Musk posted Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,
offering no evidence, and replied Yes
to a post calling for Trump's impeachment and replacement by JD Vance.
Response: Trump said the easiest way to save money
would be to terminate Elon's governmental subsidies and contracts
. The White House declined to comment (ABC News).
United States4 sourcesDuring a public feud, Trump posted that The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.
Musk replied that "SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft im…
United States2 sourcesMusk posted that the massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination
and wrote Shame on those who voted for it.
Response: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill
and that it did not change his opinion (TheWrap); Speaker Mike Johnson said "my friend Elon is t…
United States2 sourcesMusk posted: As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump,
and said DOGE's mission would continue (ABC News). Trump held an Oval Office farewell on 30 May.
Response: Trump said Elon's really not leaving. He's going to be back and forth, I think
; Musk said This is not the end of DOGE, but really at the beginning
(Al Jazeera).
United States2 sourcesProPublica reported that US Ambassador Sharon Cromer raised US aid, including a $25 million electrical project under review
, while meeting Gambia's communications ministry about Starlink's licence, and later wrote to the president urging him to "facilitate…
Response: The State Department said Starlink has been a game changer
and Any patriotic American should want to see an American company's success on the global stage
; White House spokesman Harrison Fields s…
GambiaUnited States2 sourcesThe Washington Post reported that State Department cables showed US embassies pressing countries to clear regulatory hurdles for satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by name,
and that Secretary of State Marco Rubio increasingly instructed official…
Response: The State Department said Every patriotic American should want to see American companies succeed on the world stage,
referring to weaker Chinese competitors
(Washington Post).
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IndiaUnited States2 sourcesDemocratic staff of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, released a memo estimating that Musk and his companies faced at least $2.37 billion in potential liability from 65 actual or potential federal actions as…
Response: The White House said any assertion otherwise is completely false and defamatory
; communications director Steven Cheung attributed the report to Trump Derangement Syndrome
(CNBC). Blumenthal sent…
United States2 sourcesReuters, citing six people, reported that SpaceX with Palantir and Anduril was a frontrunner for key parts of Trump's Golden Dome
missile-defence shield, proposing 400 to more than 1,000 sensing satellites under a subscription service
model.
Response: Musk posted SpaceX has not tried to bid for any contract in this regard
and, of the report, This is not true
(Fortune). SpaceX declined to comment on Musk's involvement (Reuters). Sen. Elizabeth…
United States3 sourcesThe Lesotho Communications Authority granted Starlink Lesotho a 10-year licence, calling it a significant step forward in the country's digital transformation
(Business Day). Bloomberg reported the move came as Lesotho sought to improve ties with the US.
Response: Civil society group Section 2 said the regulator disregarded local objections that Starlink Lesotho was 100% foreign-owned
(Business Day).
LesothoUnited States3 sourcesOpenAI filed counterclaims in Musk's lawsuit, alleging he has tried every tool available to harm OpenAI,
citing public attacks on X, legal claims, a pretextual demand for corporate records
and a sham bid for OpenAI's assets.
Reuters reported it asked th…
Response: OpenAI posted that Elon's nonstop actions against us are just bad-faith tactics to slow down OpenAI.
The reports reviewed did not include a response from Musk.
United States3 sourcesAt a Green Bay rally two days before the 1 April election, Musk gave $1 million cheques to two voters and called the race important for the future of civilization
; he and groups he backed spent more than $20 million supporting conservative Brad Schimel.
Response: Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul argued the payments broke a state law against offering anything of value to induce voting; the Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously declined to hear the challenge…
United States2 sourcesBangladesh's investment authority said the government approved Starlink on 28 March 2025, after interim leader Muhammad Yunus and Musk spoke in February about bringing the service to the country (AFP). On 7 April Yunus wrote to Trump asking for a tariff delay…
Response: ISP Association president Mohammad Aminul Hakim said With Starlink, none of [the] regular procedures have been followed
; Starlink and the Bangladeshi government did not respond to Rest of World's q…
BangladeshUnited States2 sourcesDeputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung signed a decision allowing SpaceX to pilot Starlink in Vietnam until no later than 1 January 2031, capped at 600,000 subscribers and with no foreign-ownership restrictions (VnEconomy).
Response: Deputy telecoms authority head Nguyen Anh Cuong said Starlink, if licensed, can operate like other telcos in the country
(Bangkok Post).
VietnamUnited States3 sourcesThe New York Times reported, citing two US officials, that Musk would receive a Pentagon briefing on military plans for a possible war with China. Musk met Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon the next day (NBC News; Axios).
Response: Trump called it such a fake story
and said China will not even be mentioned or discussed
; he also said Musk would be susceptible, perhaps
because Elon has businesses in China.
Hegseth said "T…
United States
China2 sourcesUS District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland found that Musk had firm control over DOGE
and that Musk has exerted actual authority at USAID that only a properly appointed Officer can exercise,
barring further DOGE steps to dismantle the agency. He cited…
Response: The White House and DOGE did not immediately respond (PBS).
United States3 sourcesThe New York Times reported that Starlink service had been added to the White House complex's internet; press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the White House was working to improve WiFi connectivity
on the complex (NBC News). In June the Washington Post rep…
Response: Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the agency was aware of DOGE's plans and did not consider this matter a security incident or security breach
(Washington Post via Fortune). Democrati…
United States3 sourcesPresident Trump and Musk presented Tesla vehicles on the White House South Lawn, and Trump said he would buy one. Days later Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox News viewers: It will never be this cheap. Buy Tesla
(KTVU).
Response: Former prosecutor Hui Chen said This is just not done
; CREW's Jordan Libowitz said Saying 'buy the stock' is something we can't think of ever seeing before
(CNN). The Campaign Legal Center asked…
United States2 sourcesMedia 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…
Replying to Senator Mark Kelly's thread about his visit to Ukraine, Musk wrote You are a traitor.
He later repeated in an interview that anyone not putting US interests first is a traitor.
Response: Kelly said Musk was not a serious guy
and should go back to building rockets
(ABC News), and later said he would put Musk much closer to Russia
(KJZZ).
United States2 sourcesMusk posted that The Verizon communication system to air traffic control is breaking down very rapidly
and that the FAA assessed single digit months to catastrophic failure
; the FAA confirmed it was testing Starlink terminals (CNN). The Washington Post ha…
Response: SpaceX said Recent media reports about SpaceX and the FAA are false
and that there was no effort or intent for Starlink to 'take over' any existing contract,
describing a no-cost lease of Starlin…
United States2 sourcesMusk posted that, Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions,
all federal employees would receive an email and that failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
OPM then sent an email titled What did you do last week?
asking for "ap…
Response: FBI Director Kash Patel told staff For now, please pause any responses
; the State Department said it would respond on the department's behalf (CNN). AFGE president Everett Kelley vowed to challenge…
United States3 sourcesThe Washington Post reported that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would lose 70 to 80 staff, about 10% of its workforce, and that a small office overseeing self-driving vehicle safety lost three of roughly seven people.
Response: NHTSA called the cuts modest
and said it would enforce the law on all manufacturers of motor vehicles and equipment
(AP via Fortune). Tesla and DOGE did not respond to the Washington Post.
United States2 sourcesAfter 60 Minutes aired a segment critical of the USAID funding cuts Musk was leading through DOGE, he replied to the programme's post: "60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election. Th…
Response: CBS had said the released materials confirmed the broadcast was not doctored or deceitful.
No CBS response to Musk's post was reported.
United States2 sourcesIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Musk in Washington before his talks with President Trump; India's foreign ministry said they discussed strengthening collaboration in areas including innovation and space exploration. Musk was then leading DOGE, while S…
Response: Asked whether Musk met Modi as a private citizen or a government official, Trump said I don't know,
adding I assume he wants to do business in India,
and said Musk would not be allowed to do anyt…
IndiaUnited States5 sourcesIn the Oval Office on 11 February Musk said DOGE had found people in there that are 150 years old
in Social Security data; on 16 February he posted a table of people in each age bracket with the death field set to false, and the next day posted "Maybe Twili…
Response: Acting SSA Commissioner Lee Dudek said These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits
(FactCheck.org; CBS News).
United States3 sourcesA consortium led by Musk made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to buy OpenAI and return it to an open-source, safety-focused force,
while Musk's xAI competed with OpenAI and his lawsuit against it was pending.
Response: Sam Altman replied no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.
Board chair Bret Taylor said OpenAI is not for sale
and that the board had "unanimously rejected Mr. Musk's…
United States2 sourcesAfter US District Judge Paul Engelmayer temporarily barred DOGE staff from Treasury payment systems, Musk called him A corrupt judge protecting corruption
who needs to be impeached NOW!
Response: New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said What's shady is a tech billionaire breaking the law to try to steal millions of Americans' sensitive data
(CNBC). On 18 March 2025 Chief Justice Joh…
United States2 sourcesUS District Judge Paul Engelmayer temporarily restricted DOGE's access to the Treasury Department system that disburses tax refunds, Social Security benefits and federal salaries, and ordered anyone given access since 20 January to destroy downloaded informat…
Response: Musk wrote that DOGE and Treasury had jointly agreed
on payment requirements and that It is ridiculous that these changes didn't exist already!
The White House called the order "judicial overreac…
United States3 sourcesA White House official said Musk was working for President Trump as a special government employee, a status usually limited to 130 days a year that carries lighter financial-disclosure requirements than regular federal jobs. Musk had a government email addres…
Response: Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Musk has abided by all applicable federal laws
; Trump said Elon can't do and won't do anything without our approval
(Fortune). The White House did not say wh…
United States2 sourcesMusk wrote that USAID was a criminal organization
and that It needs to die,
and said on an X livestream that DOGE was in the process of shutting it down (NPR). He also promoted a claim that the US had planned to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza (CNN).
Response: Senator Chuck Schumer said dissolving USAID would be illegal and against our national interests
(NPR).
United States3 sourcesThe SEC sued Musk, alleging he disclosed his 5% Twitter stake 11 days late in 2022 and bought more than $500 million in shares at artificially low prices, underpaying by over $150 million. Musk called the SEC a totally broken organization.
Response: Musk's attorney Alex Spiro called the suit a sham
and a single-count ticky tak complaint
(ABC News).
United States2 sourcesIn more than two dozen posts Musk wrote This bill should not pass,
repeatedly called it criminal,
wrote Johnson should be ashamed of himself. This is indefensible,
and said lawmakers who voted for it should be voted out (Axios; CNN).
Response: Rep. Don Bacon said Musk should have gotten the facts
; Johnson said he was texting with Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to explain the bill (CNN). President-elect Trump also came out against the bill (For…
United States3 sourcesThe New York Times reported that the Defense Department's Inspector General, the Air Force and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security had opened reviews into whether Musk and SpaceX complied with federal reporting rules for…
Response: Musk posted on X: Deep state traitors are coming after me, using their paid shills in legacy media
(NYT via Boston Globe). The Pentagon Inspector General's office said it could "neither confirm nor…
United States2 sourcesFederal Election Commission filings showed Musk gave about $239 million to his America PAC, which ran canvassing and turnout operations for Trump, and $20.5 million to RBG PAC, making him the largest donor of the 2024 cycle (CBS News).
Response: Clara Spera, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's granddaughter, called RBG PAC an affront to her grandmother's legacy
(CBS News). Pennsylvania's attorney general received about 20 complaints about unsolicited $1…
United States3 sourcesAfter Chancellor McCormick ruled that a June 2024 Tesla shareholder vote could not ratify the voided 2018 pay package, Musk called the decision absolute corruption.
Response: Tesla said on X that it would appeal (NBC News).
United States3 sourcesMusk's lawyers expanded his federal suit to allege that OpenAI and Microsoft violated antitrust law, including by asking investors not to fund rivals such as Musk's xAI, which they called a group boycott.
A motion filed 29 November sought a preliminary inju…
Response: OpenAI said: Elon's fourth attempt, which again recycles the same baseless complaints, continues to be utterly without merit.
Microsoft declined to comment.
United States4 sourcesMusk, then named by Trump to co-lead a government cost-cutting effort, reposted posts from an anonymous account listing the names and titles of four women in federal climate roles, commenting So many fake jobs
on one. The posts drew tens of millions of view…
Response: AFGE union president Everett Kelley said: These tactics are aimed at sowing terror and fear at federal employees.
X did not respond to CNN's request for comment.
United States2 sourcesMusk posted Michigan has more registered voters than eligible citizens!? Is that true @CommunityNotes?
and later posted that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was lying to the public (CBS Detroit).
Response: Benson said Musk was spreading dangerous disinformation
and was pushing a misleading number that includes 1.2 million inactive records slated for removal in accordance with the law
(PolitiFact; C…
United States2 sourcesAt a Pennsylvania event, Musk said America PAC would award $1 million randomly to people who have signed the petition
every day until the election; eligibility was limited to registered voters in seven battleground states.
Response: The Justice Department's public integrity section warned America PAC the giveaway may violate federal law, according to people briefed on the matter (CNN). Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasne…
United States3 sourcesSpaceX sued the California Coastal Commission after it voted 6-4 on 10 October 2024 against the Space Force's plan to raise SpaceX launches at Vandenberg from 36 to 50 a year, alleging overt, and shocking, political bias
and violations of Musk's free-speech…
Response: The commission declined to comment on the lawsuit (CNN). In 2026 it said it continued to have serious concerns about the impacts to coastal resources from increased rocket launches at the base
(Cou…
United States2 sourcesMusk posted that FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help!
and relayed claims that relief flights, including those carrying Starlink kits, were being blocked in North Carolina after H…
Response: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg replied: No one is shutting down the airspace and FAA doesn't block legitimate rescue and recovery flights.
FEMA said claims it was confiscating supplies wer…
United States2 sourcesAfter the FAA proposed $633,009 in civil penalties against SpaceX, Musk called it More lawfare
and wrote that SpaceX would sue the FAA for regulatory overreach.
On 25 September he posted that FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker needs to resign.
Response: FAA Chief Counsel Marc Nichols said Failure of a company to comply with the safety requirements will result in consequences
(Axios). Whitaker told a House subcommittee that fines are the agency's o…
United States4 sourcesReplying to a user who asked why people wanted to kill Donald Trump, Musk wrote And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.
He deleted the post and said it had been a joke.
Response: The White House said Violence should only be condemned, never encouraged or joked about. This rhetoric is irresponsible.
The Secret Service said it was aware of the post and "investigates all threa…
United States2 sourcesThe Center for Countering Digital Hate identified 50 posts Musk shared between 1 January and 31 July 2024 containing election claims that fact-checkers had rated false or misleading, including claims that Democrats were importing voters through illegal immigr…
Response: CCDH chief executive Imran Ahmed said Musk was abusing his position as owner of a politically influential platform. X responded to Mother Jones with an automated message and did not respond to AFP.
United States2 sourcesX sued the World Federation of Advertisers and companies including Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and Orsted in Texas federal court, alleging that through the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) they organised an illegal advertising boycott. Musk posted:…
Response: Within days the WFA discontinued GARM, saying the allegations misconstrue its purpose and activities
and had significantly drained its resources and finances.
United States7 sourcesAfter President Biden withdrew from the race, X's AI chatbot Grok told users that ballot deadlines had passed in nine states, implying Kamala Harris could not be added. Five secretaries of state wrote to Musk asking that Grok direct election questions to CanI…
Response: The letter said Grok continued to repeat this false information for more than a week
before it was corrected on 31 July 2024. X did not immediately respond (Minnesota Reformer).
United States3 sourcesMusk reposted a video that used an AI-generated imitation of Vice President Kamala Harris's voice, captioning it amazing
with a laughing emoji and no parody label. Malay Mail reported it drew more than 128 million views on his account.
Response: California Governor Gavin Newsom posted that the video should be illegal
; Musk replied that parody is legal in America (Axios). Senator Amy Klobuchar said the post violated X's guidelines, and the…
United States3 sourcesAfter Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick voided his 2018 Tesla pay package, Musk posted Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware
and polled followers on moving Tesla's incorporation to Texas. On 1 February he wrote that companies should leave Del…
Response: Legal scholars quoted by The Philadelphia Inquirer disputed Musk's framing; Tulane law professor Ann Lipton said his losses would not have happened had Tesla followed basic corporate-governance forma…
United States2 sourcesX suspended the accounts of journalists including Ken Klippenstein (The Intercept), Steven Monacelli (Texas Observer) and Alan MacLeod, along with several left-leaning commentators. Most accounts were restored within hours.
Response: Musk posted: We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them.
X answered Fast Company's questions with its automated press reply.
United States2 sourcesA day after NLRB prosecutors accused SpaceX of unlawfully firing eight employees over an internal open letter criticising Musk, SpaceX sued the board in federal court, arguing its structure is unconstitutional because members and judges are shielded by remova…
Response: The NLRB declined to comment (The Register).
United States3 sourcesAsked at the New York Times DealBook Summit about advertisers leaving X, Musk said that anyone trying to blackmail
him with advertising should go fuck yourself,
repeated Don't advertise,
and addressed Disney CEO Bob Iger: "Hey Bob, if you're in the audi…
Response: Iger, speaking earlier at the summit, said association with Musk and X was not necessarily a positive one for us.
United States2 sourcesMusk posted that X would file a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters
when courts opened on Monday. X then sued the group and its reporter Eric Hananoki in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, alleging they knowingly and maliciously manufactured
imag…
Response: Media Matters president Angelo Carusone called it a frivolous lawsuit meant to bully X's critics into silence
and said the group stands behind its reporting.
United States7 sourcesMusk posted that the ADL had been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic,
said US ad revenue was down 60% primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL,
and said X may file a defamation suit. He later estimated A…
Response: An ADL spokesperson said the group was unsurprised yet undeterred
and does not comment on legal threats. ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt called Musk's conduct "flat out dangerous and deeply irrespons…
United States2 sourcesA Washington Post analysis, confirmed in Reuters tests, found X delayed by about five seconds the loading of links to The New York Times and Reuters and to rival platforms including Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram.
Response: X confirmed the delay had been removed but gave no explanation. A New York Times spokesperson said we don't know the rationale behind the application of this time delay
and that the paper would be…
United States2 sourcesX Corp sued the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) in San Francisco federal court, alleging it illegally scraped data and cherry-picked posts in a scare campaign to drive away advertisers.
X sought damages and an order barring CCDH from its…
Response: CCDH said By threatening us, Musk is trying to hide the truth about his own failures.
CEO Imran Ahmed later called the suit a hypocritical campaign of harassment.
United States4 sourcesHours after Meta launched Threads, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro wrote to Mark Zuckerberg accusing Meta of systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets
by hiring former Twitter staff, and reserving the right to sue. Musk posted…
Response: Meta spokesman Andy Stone said: No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that's just not a thing.
United States2 sourcesDays after Substack announced Substack Notes, a Twitter-like feed, Twitter stopped users liking, retweeting or replying to posts containing Substack links and showed warnings on them; searches for substack
returned newsletter
results.
Response: Substack CEO Chris Best said None of this is true
and that Substack had complied with Twitter's API rules.
United States2 sourcesTwitter added a clause to its developer agreement forbidding use of its API to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications,
after third-party apps had already stopped working without notice.
Response: Twitterrific's developer blamed an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter.
United States2 sourcesTwitter announced it would no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms,
barring links or usernames for Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post, and saying it would remove accounts created to promote them.
Response: After criticism, Musk wrote the policy will be adjusted to suspending accounts only when that account's primary purpose is promotion of competitors.
United States2 sourcesTwitter suspended the accounts of several reporters, including CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, The New York Times' Ryan Mac, The Washington Post's Drew Harwell and The Intercept's Micah Lee, after coverage of the @elonjet ban. Musk wrote that "doxxing my real-time lo…
Response: A spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the suspensions a dangerous precedent
. EU Commissioner Věra Jourová warned of possible sanctions under EU law, saying "There are red lin…
United States
European Union2 sourcesTwitter permanently suspended the @elonjet account and its creator Jack Sweeney's personal account. Musk said a crazy stalker
had followed a car carrying his son and posted: "Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to…
Response: Musk also posted that his plane is actually not trackable without using non-public data.
United States3 sourcesCNN reported that Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, left his home after threats against him increased. A person familiar with his situation told CNN the threats escalated after Musk appeared to endorse a post falsely accusing Roth of sympa…
Response: CNN's report did not include a response from Musk. A Twitter statement quoted in the report, that it was unfortunate to see individual employees targeted for company decisions,
dates from 2020, whe…
United States2 sourcesAfter Android engineer Eric Frohnhoefer publicly contradicted Musk's explanation of why the app was slow, Musk posted He's fired.
Bloomberg reported that a second engineer, Ben Leib, was also fired after a critical retweet, and Platformer reported that abou…
Response: Twitter, whose communications team had largely been laid off, did not respond to requests for comment. Termination emails reported by Platformer said the employees' "recent behavior has violated comp…
United States3 sourcesThe day before the 2022 midterm elections, Musk posted that Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties
and recommended voting for a Republican Congress because the presidency was Democratic.
United States2 sourcesSpaceX fired several employees who wrote and circulated an internal open letter saying Musk's public behaviour was a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment
for the company. President Gwynne Shotwell said in a staff email, first reported by The New…
Response: Shotwell wrote that the letter and solicitations made employees feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry
and that "We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this…
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