A fresh crisis may be brewing for Elon Musk in Europe. Tesla’s demanding CEO recently had to tackle the vexing problem of a widening labor union strike in Sweden affecting its Scandinavian operations. Now it seems as if demand is starting to soften across key parts of the continent at a time when Warren Buffett–backed BYD eclipsed […]
It hasn’t been the best start to 2024 for Elon Musk. The owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, appealed to YouTube’s biggest star MrBeast to post his videos on the platform, and was promptly rejected. On December 30 MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, posted on X to announce his latest video release […]
India’s parliament has passed a telecommunications bill that replaces its century-old rules as the country, with over 1.17 billion telephone connections and 881 million internet subscribers, aims to modernize connectivity and embrace new services including satellite broadband, just months before general elections. On Thursday, the upper house of the Indian parliament approved the Telecommunications Bill, […]
Brazilian first lady Rosangela ‘Janja’ Lula da Silva said on Tuesday she will sue Elon Musk-owned social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, after having her account hacked last week. The alleged hacker entered Janja’s account on December 11th and posted several messages, including insults against the first lady and president Luiz Inacio Lula […]
The European Union (EU) is looking into whether Elon Musk’s online platform X breached tough new social media regulations in the first such investigation since the rules designed to make online content less toxic took effect. “Today we open formal infringement proceedings against @X” under the Digital Services Act (DSA), European Commissioner Thierry Breton said […]
Elon Musk’s X — the social media company formerly known as Twitter — filed a lawsuit against Media Matters for America on Monday for defamation after the media watchdog group reported that the platform had been placing ads for major brands next to pro-Hitler and white nationalist content. What does the lawsuit say? The complaint, […]
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Nordic workers aren’t happy with Elon Musk’s Tesla — and they’re showing their displeasure. After Swedish workers began a strike earlier this fall against Musk’s electric vehicle giant, many comrades in neighboring countries are now either standing in solidarity or preparing to do so. […]
Elon Musk has developed breakthrough tech companies and made himself a figure in global politics. Could his erratic behavior undermine those successes? ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Elon Musk is the richest person in the world. His business empire encompasses social media, space exploration, electric vehicles and satellite communications. And those businesses are part of what’s pulling […]
Famed investor and executive Keith Rabois defended his recent assertion that X, the platform previously known as Twitter, has “almost surely” prevented a second Holocaust as “self-evident” in an exchange with VICE News. He was unable or unwilling to provide specifics. Rabois is a general partner at Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm the oligarch Peter […]