PARIS, FRANCE | Xinhua | After the arrest of the Telegram chief executive officer (CEO), the owner of the U.S. social media platform X Elon Musk, and former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden both condemned this arrest and stressed the freedom of speech on Sunday. The founder and …
Read More »Over 19 million join Trump X space, 122 million view his tweet as he vows to work with Putin
NEW YORK | TASS | US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that he hopes to get on well with Russian President Vladimir Putin again if he wins the upcoming presidential election. “I got along with Putin very well, and he respected me,” Trump said in an interview with …
Read More »Inside Elon Musk’s plan to Colonise Mars
Thermonuclear blasts and new species ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | For more than two decades, Elon Musk has focused SpaceX, his rocket company, on his lifelong goal of reaching Mars. Over the past year, he has also ramped up work on what will happen if he gets there. Musk, 53, has directed …
Read More »Elon Musk to move SpaceX, X headquarters out of California
LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | American billionaire Elon Musk announced Tuesday that he would move the headquarters of SpaceX and X out of California, one day after the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that bans school rules requiring staff to disclose children’s gender identity changes to their parents. …
Read More »Elon Musk donates to group working to elect Donald Trump
NEW YORK, U.S.A | TASS | Billionaire US entrepreneur Elon Musk has donated to a super political action committee supporting ex-US President Donald Trump in the current presidential race, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. According to the media outlet, this is “a major gambit by the world’s richest person to make his imprint …
Read More »Elon Musk vs Australia
Global content take-down orders can harm the internet as we know it today if they are adopted widely COMMENT | DAN JERKER B. SVANTESSON | Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this …
Read More »BOOK REVIEW: Elon Musk’s billion dollar journey
From South Africa to Canada and the U.S., the story of the world’s richest man and how he conquered tech BOOK REVIEW | WALTER ISAACSON | I love electric vehicles. And until I read this book about Elon Musk, I had a fairly good opinion of Elon Musk, the owner of …
Read More »Vodacom Group enters Elon Musk’s Starlink orbit
Vodacom Group is readying to introduce mobile satellite internet terminals – a service that would put the telco in direct competition with Starlink in a race to connect tens of millions of unserved and underserved mobile customers across Africa. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | The hope of getting hundreds …
Read More »Elon Musk to auction Twitter signs
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Multi-billionaire Elon Musk is putting Twitter building signs and other items from the company up for auction just weeks after the firm’s rebranding as X, BBC reported on Aug.10. Among the 584 lots on offer are coffee tables, outsized bird cages, and oil paintings of …
Read More »Elon Musk’s tyranny at Twitter
The Political-Economic implication of surrendering unregulated authority to the whims of an eccentric billionaires COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITI SSERUWGI | Twitter owner Elon Musk on July 01 announced the “Rate limit exceeded” policy on the online social networking service. This means that you have reached the limit for the number …
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