Elon Musk - report

Business magnate (born 1971)

Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner, CTO, and chairman of Twitter; founder of the Boring Company and X Corp.; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes's Real Time Billionaires list as of June 2023, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX, with an estimated net worth of around $225 billion according to Bloomberg and $235 billion according to Forbes.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

2021 2022 2024

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Elon Musk unbanned Alex Jones' X account on Saturday. It follows a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favour of the Infowars host. Apple, Alphabet's YouTube, and Facebook have also banned Jones contents citing violations of community standards.
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The X CEO was asked about American firms - including Disney - who pulled ads after he apparently endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Musk said the decision by some major advertisers to distance themselves from X could "kill the company"
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The White House slammed X owner Elon Musk on Friday for supporting an antisemitic post on the social media platform this week. Musk responded to a post that said Jewish communities support "dialectical hatred against whites" by saying, "You said the actual truth"
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Tesla CEO and X Corp. owner Elon Musk has come under fire for antisemitism again. Musk agreed with an X user who claimed that Jewish communities were pushing ‘hatred against whites’ IBM says it has stopped advertising on X due to a report its ads were shown next to pro-Nazi posts at the platform.
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Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk is under fire for calling an antisemitic theory "the actual truth"
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Elon Musk has slammed the European Union over its work with NewsGuard. NewsGuard helped revise the EU’s “code of practice on disinformation” Musk called NewsGuard a “scam” that “ought to be disbanded immediately”
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The Facebook founder hit out at Mr Musk in a post on his Threads social network. Zuckerberg had proposed a date of August 26. But Mr Musk appeared to back away from the fight after saying he needed an MRI scan.
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Elon Musk says his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on X. Musk and Zuckerberg have been teasing an apparent mixed martial arts bout since late June. No date has been set for the fight, which is expected to take place in Las Vegas.
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Elon Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla billionaire who purchased the site last year for over $40 billion, implemented the rebrand. Musk chose “X” seemingly because he “likes the letter X,” and it appears to be an on-brand decision, considering one of his first ventures was an online bank known as X.
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The pair met in 2015 when Modi visited Tesla’s Fremont Factory in California. Modi is on his first state visit to the U.S. and will meet with business leaders on Thursday. Musk said there will likely be further investment in India.
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Musk told Tesla workers last year that they could work in the office fulltime or quit. Musk voiced concerns about what he sees as OpenAI's shift to a closed-source for-profit model like Google. He also addressed his attacks on Democratic donor George Soros.
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Elon Musk has lost an appeal against an SEC agreement that landed him with a "Twitter Sitter" The clause means that Musk's Tesla-related tweets must be reviewed by another company executive. Musk had been fighting back against the clause, saying it violated his freedom of speech. US Virgin Islands is suing JPMorgan Chase over sex trafficking by the bank’s late longtime customer Jeffrey Epstein.
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Elon Musk must still have his tweets approved by a Tesla lawyer, federal appeals court rules. Musk reached a settlement with the SEC in 2018 after the regulator claimed that he lied when he said he had "funding secured" for taking Tesla private. The deal also had Musk step down as Tesla chairman.
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Linda Yaccarino, a former advertising chief at NBCUniversal, has been named Twitter's new CEO. The move may be his best yet, as the former NBCU exec is well respected in the advertising world.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has reached out to former CNN host Don Lemon to start a new show on Twitter. Musk also announced the launch of an early version of encrypted direct messages on the social media platform. Musk bought Twitter in October for $44 billion.
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said a version of encrypted direct messages will be available on Twitter starting Wednesday. The move comes as Musk tries to ramp up engagement, and opportunities to make money, at the online platform.
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Tesla's sinking share price had the most immediate consequences, with the EV's CEO seeing his wealth drop by $12.6 billion. Musk's stake in Tesla makes up the biggest part of his $163.9 billion fortune. Now Musk's fortune stands at $164 billion and he ranks second in the world's billionaire rating.
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Twitter under Musk appears to have lost the thing that made it impossible to quit. Tesla Inc's TSLA.O shares sank more than 8% on Thursday and dragged down other automakers.
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Twitter could become cash-flow positive as soon as this quarter. Most advertisers are now back on the platform, Musk says. Musk said he has no one in mind to succeed him as Twitter chief executive.
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Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn (£35.4bn) in October last year. There are now around 1,500 staff members, from just under 8,000 when Mr Musk took over. Musk says he wants to turn one of Twitter's San Francisco buildings into a homeless shelter.
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Shares in Tesla surged 5.5pc on Monday, lifting Mr Musk’s net worth to $187.1bn (£155.15bn) He reclaims the top spot from French luxury magnate Bernard Arnault, whose net worth is now valued at $185.3bn. Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion last year.
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Engineers built a system designed to ensure that Elon Musk benefits from exclusive promotion of his tweets. Musk sold more than $20 billion of Tesla stock last year as he tried to shore up his buyout of Twitter.