===elon musk===

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor. He is the founder, chairman, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, product architect, and former chairman of Tesla, Inc.; owner, executive chairman, and CTO of X Corp.; founder of the Boring Company and xAI; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the Musk Foundation. He is one of the wealthiest people in the world; as of April 2024, Forbes estimates his net worth to be $178 billion. A member of the wealthy South African Musk family, Musk was born in Pretoria and briefly attended the University of Pretoria before immigrating to Canada at age 18, acquiring citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. Two years later, he matriculated at Queen's University at Kingston in Canada. Musk later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and received bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University, but dropped out after two days and, with his brother Kimbal, co-founded online city guide software company Zip2. The startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. That same year, Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank. X.com merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. In October 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion. Using $100 million of the money he made from the sale of PayPal, Musk founded SpaceX, a spaceflight services company, in 2002.

Elon Musk’s mother ‘encouraged X followers to commit voter fraud’ as she is fact-checked on son’s platform
Elon Musk’s mom has been accused of encouraging followers on X to commit voter fraud and was fact-checked by her son’s own social media platform. Maye Musk quoted a post by her son before he spoke at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania yesterday, where the billionaire wrote: “Super important to get all your friends and family to register to vote. Georgia’s registration deadline is Monday!!” But his mom went a step further and suggested to her 1.1 million followers they could vote more than once under fake names - which is illegal.
(Independent 10/7/24) READ MORE>>>>>

Seth Millstein

Musk’s record on the environment is mixed. There was a time when he had a reputation as an environmentalist, as the success of his electric car company Tesla was seen as a positive step in reducing transportation-related greenhouse emissions. Over the last few years, however, Musk’s politics have drifted steadily to the right, and that includes his stance on global warming and sustainability. In a recent conversation with Donald Trump, Musk downplayed climate change’s urgency, claiming that “it’s not like the house is on fire immediately” and that “people can still have a steak and they can still drive gasoline cars, and it’s okay.” Musk’s statements are often contradictory, however. He went on to characterize climate action as “something we need to move towards,” albeit “without causing hardship in the short term.” Musk has also praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who made headlines recently for banning the sale of cultivated meat in his state. And yet despite all of this, Musk’s company SpaceX has collaborated with Aleph Farms, an Israeli company that makes alternative meat, to investigate the viability of growing cultivated meat in space. In 2022, a four-man team flew to the International Space Station on a SpaceX capsule with cultivated beef cells in tow, and studied the viability of growing those cells into edible meat in zero gravity conditions. It seems contradictory: Musk’s company participates in an experiment that promotes meat alternatives (in space, at least), yet he’s also vocally downplayed beef’s role in driving climate pollution (back on Earth). While only Musk knows what’s going on in his head, the fact remains that his company has at least played a small role in research to advance cultivated meat technology. Outside of that, Musk’s company Tesla stopped using animal products in its cars in 2019, replacing the traditional leather seats with vinyl. (Good Men Project:  How Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates and Musk Are Trying — Or Not Trying — To Make Meat Sustainable  9/15/24)

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“I can’t wait. There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go...I think we need a government efficiency commission to say like, ‘Hey, where are we spending money that’s sensible. Where is it not sensible? We need to live within our means. I look forward to serving America if the opportunity arises. No pay, no title, no recognition is needed.” --Elon Musk 8.13.24

 "It is premature to discuss any prospective personnel in the next administration, but we welcome the enthusiasm and support of Elon Musk. When Elon started the conversation with the president, I think the president was very excited that somebody like Elon Musk is so dedicated to America’s future that he would be willing to be a part of something to help the government work more efficiently.” --Brian Hughes; Trump campaign senior advisor. 8.13.24

Supreme Court Rejects Elon Musk's Bid To Overturn SEC Decision: Report
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s appeal regarding a securities fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The court upheld the 2018 SEC settlement following Musk’s social media statement about Tesla, involving a $20 million fine, according to a report from Reuters. The settlement stemmed from Musk’s claim of having “funding secured” to privatize Tesla, which the SEC deemed false, leading to accusations of defrauding investors.   (Benzinga 4/29/24) READ MORE>>>>>

Media Matters statement on winning injunction against Texas AG Ken Paxton in federal court
Media Matters President and CEO Angelo Carusone issued the following statement after Judge Amit Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted Media Matters a preliminary injunction against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Elon Musk encouraged Republican state attorneys general to use their power to harass their critics and stifle reporting about X. Ken Paxton was one of those AGs that took up the call and he was defeated. Today's decision is a victory for free speech. (Media Matter 4/12/24) READ MORE>>>>>

Now social media generation is enamored by HITLER: AI video converting a 1939 ... trends now
Tens of millions on Elon Musk's social media site X have now viewed two disturbing AI-translated clips of Adolf Hitler's 1939 Reichstag speech. ​But the videos — in which the genocidal dictator can be heard, via AI-generated English, calling for the 'annihilation of the Jewish race' — have been met with a number of positive replies. 
'Did the psychopathic Globalists falsely demonize Hitler like they're trying to demonize Putin?' one user replied beneath the video. 'It seems so.' (Mogaznews 3/12/24)  READ MORE>>>>>