Elon Musk’s X has challenged a New York state law that requires social media companies to disclose how they monitor hate speech, extremism, and other contentious content. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, argues that the law forces companies to disclose “highly sensitive and controversial speech” that...
Gavin Newsom and leading Democrats have spent the last few days fulminating about “authoritarianism” by Donald Trump for sending National Guard and Marine units to protect federal law enforcement agents and sites. What will they have to say when they discover that the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice spied on an industrialist supporter of...
Lily Jamali North America technology correspondent Getty Images When Elon Musk recently announced that he was stepping back from politics, investors hoped that would mean he would step up his involvement in the many tech firms he runs. His explosive row with President Donald Trump – and the very public airing of his dirty White...
Is the Donald Trump-Elon Musk bromance finally over? President Trump is threatening to cut off billions of dollars in federal contracts with Musk after the two billionaires engaged in a dramatic online feud just days after Musk called Trump’s budget bill a “disgusting abomination.” Musk appeared to back the impeachment of Trump and claimed the...
Tensions between US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk reached a breaking point on Thursday after both exchanged insults, mostly on social media. During an Oval Office meeting with the Chancellor of Germany, Trump expressed his disappointment with Musk’s opposition to his spending bill, adding he would rather have Musk criticise him than the bill...
BBC US President Donald Trump says he was “very surprised” and “disappointed” with his former ally Elon Musk’s criticisms of his centrepiece budget bill. “Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump told reporters in the White House on Thursday. It was the president’s most direct criticism yet...
Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle (EV) giant Tesla is “not interested in manufacturing in India”, the country’s heavy industries minister has said. The remarks were made on Monday as the Indian government issued detailed guidelines for a scheme to promote EV manufacturing in the country. This is the first time that India has publicly admitted that...
On Wednesday evening, the world’s wealthiest man announced that his sojourn in the nation’s capital is almost over. “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President (Donald Trump) for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” Elon Musk posted to X,...
The world’s richest man spent nearly 130 days working with the Trump administration to slash the federal government. From attending the president’s inauguration, taking his son ‘Lil X’ – as Musk calls him – to the Oval Office, showing off a Tesla at the White House and then criticising Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, these are...
Getty Images A sign outside a SpaceX facility near the proposed new city The area where Elon Musk’s SpaceX company operates on the southern tip of Texas is to officially become a city called Starbase. Residents approved incorporating a patch of land as the new municipality in an election on Saturday. Most of the 283...
It’s a wonder that President Trump and his team haven’t been driven out of office by now. He and they would have been if the Pravda Media had their way. You got me beat ???? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 2025 Buried in the news that Trump and his team get almost nothing but...
Lucy Gilder, Jake Horton and the Data Science team BBC Verify BBC Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) – set up to cut US government spending – claims to have saved, on average, more than $10bn a week since President Trump entered office. “We’re talking about almost $200bn and rising fast,” Trump told the...
Mike Wendling Reporting fromBastrop, Texas Getty Images The site pictured in 2023, with SpaceX facilities at the top, The Boring Company located to the left and the building housing local businesses in the centre. Since then, the development has expanded further. After fleeing Silicon Valley for political and business reasons, Elon Musk is building a...
Khanyisile Ngcobo BBC News, Johannesburg Getty Images The tussle between Starlink boss Elon Musk and South Africa over the company’s failure to launch in the country stems from the nation’s black empowerment laws, and could be one factor behind the diplomatic row between the US and Africa’s most industrialised nation. To his more than 219...
On April 10, two American Airlines jets clipped wings on the taxiway at Reagan Washington National Airport outside Washington, D.C. No one was injured in the minor collision, in which six members of Congress were among the 143 passengers. Just two weeks before, on March 28, a formation of four military jets on their way...