The Latest Breaking News from Elon Musk

Musk's Neuralink staff claim his demands to rush brain implant trials led to the needless deaths of 1,500 animals

The company is being probed for potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

Fortune · Dec 6, 2022

QAnon, white nationalists and hate speech: Experts reveal how the floodgates opened on Elon Musk’s Twitter

Those who specialise in monitoring the spread of disinformation say ‘trust and safety are dead’ on the social media platform. Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

Engagement with Musk's tweets explodes post takeover

The new owner's engagement numbers soar, but he's getting a lot more replies than likes.

Axios · Dec 6, 2022

The alternative-media industrial complex

Elon Musk is giving a push to a new model of publishing built mostly on the idea that it's anti-mainstream media.

Axios · Dec 6, 2022

Commentary: Thinking of leaving Twitter? Its experience is hard to replicate

The moves Elon Musk has made since purchasing Twitter in October — resulting in hundreds of employee resignations — have many either fleeing the platform or looking around for alternatives such as Hive Social or Mastodon, with the latter gaining more than a million followers over the last month.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 6, 2022

Editorial: After Constitution idiocy, Trump is weaker than ever. GOP, dump this loser for good

An easy question for Republican leaders: Aren’t you sick of being scared of whatever idiocy Donald Trump is going to drag you into next?

Tribune News Service · Dec 6, 2022

Elon Musk: Tesla Semi Efficiency Is 1.7 kWh/mile

After the recent customer delivery event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that the actual efficiency is even better than the official number from specs.

InsideEVs · Dec 6, 2022

Elon Musk publishing Hunter Biden laptop Twitter files was ‘not healthy’, White House says

‘It won’t do anything to help a single American improve their lives’

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

Musk’s Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing

Brain-implant company accused of causing needless suffering and deaths amid pressure from CEO

The Guardian - US · Dec 6, 2022

Federal authorities investigating Elon Musk’s Neuralink for ‘hack job’ treatment of test animals: report

The company has been accused of maiming test monkeys in the past

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022