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'Utter contempt': Elon Musk goes to war with Australian government over violent content

Elon Musk has stepped up his war of words with the Australian government, reacting to one Senator’s call for him to be “jailed”.
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'Utter contempt': Elon Musk goes to war with Australian government over violent content

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When Did Katy Perry Become Elon Musk's Go-To PR Shill? – The Daily Beast

Can we think of anything more “Katy Perry” than posing with a Cybertruck days after Tesla recalled it? Seriously, though, Katy, blink twice if you need help.
Katy Perry, respectfully, what the hell are you doing?
Is it just me, or do we, as a society, collectively ask that question every three months or so? Whether she’s duking it out with some nuns over real estate, joining American Idol as a judge more than a decade after it was cool, releasing shoes that resemble blackface and […]
When Did Katy Perry Become Elon Musk's Go-To PR Shill? – The Daily Beast

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Tesla Earnings Report: Revenue Fell to $21.3 Billion, Adding to Strategy Concerns

The first-quarter results are likely to fuel worries that competitors will continue grabbing a bigger slice of a market dealing with slowing electric car sales.
Tesla reported on Tuesday that it made significantly less money in the first three months of the year because of its tepid car sales, reinforcing concern among investors that the company led by Elon Musk is losing ground in the market for electric vehicles.
Profit fell 55 percent, to $1.1 billion, from the first quarter of 2023, the […]
Tesla Earnings Report: Revenue Fell to $21.3 Billion, Adding to Strategy Concerns

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Elon Musk's battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech …

The X owner was always going to turn the video removal request into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives
This battle was never about the removal of a single violent video for Elon Musk – it was always going to turn into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives featuring Musk as the free speech antihero fighting Woke Governments of the World. At least, that is how he wishes to portray it to his more than 180 million […]
Elon Musk's battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech …

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Australian PM calls Elon Musk an 'arrogant billionaire' in row over attack footage

Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later.More content belowOops!Something went wrong.Please try again later.More content belowAustralia's leader has called Elon Musk an "arrogant billionaire" in an escalating feud over X's reluctance to remove footage of a church stabbing.
On Monday, an Australian court ordered Mr Musk's social media firm – formerly called Twitter – to hide videos of last week's attack in Sydney.
X previously said it would comply "pending […]
Australian PM calls Elon Musk an 'arrogant billionaire' in row over attack footage

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Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote – Engadget

X just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named X TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.” By high-quality entertainment, X likely means that one Tucker Carlson video where he’s really impressed by grocery carts in Russia. That’s not a joke. Carlson is featured prominently in the little […]
Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote – Engadget

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Elon Musk plots new direction after Tesla's electric car crisis – The Telegraph

Billionaire attempts to crack the code of self-driving cars

Tesla investors have spent the last few months wondering if the car maker’s chief executive has his eye on the ball.
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, his altercations with OpenAI and his frequent political proclamations have led to questions about the amount of attention the billionaire was giving to the world’s most valuable carmaker.
Calls for a full-time chief at Tesla have grown ever louder.
This weekend, Musk […]
Elon Musk plots new direction after Tesla's electric car crisis – The Telegraph

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Elon Musk's X v Australia's online safety regulator: untangling the tweet takedown order

Musk calls eSafety chief a ‘censorship commissar’ while PM brands Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ over videos of alleged church stabbing. What is going on?
Elon Musk’s X is in a fight with the Australian online safety regulator, the courts have got involved and even the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has weighed in.
The conflict has descended into a war of words, with Musk calling the eSafety commissioner a “censorship commissar” and Albanese labelling Musk an “arrogant […]
Elon Musk's X v Australia's online safety regulator: untangling the tweet takedown order