Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia. As politics and sports analyst Nate Silver flagged, a graph compiled by The Economist that tracked Musk's tweets from 2014 until November 2024 illustrated in stark detail how frequently the billionaire posts — and how little,
Americans are still in the dark about the scope and scale of what Elon Musk is doing with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is working to drastically shrink the size of government by aiming to cut $1 trillion or more in government spending.
When Musk took over Twitter, he launched a payroll audit to root out dead workers getting paid. Now, Musk is launching the same campaign across the federal government.
Musk's AI chatbot Grok suggested Trump was 85 percent likely to be "a Russian asset" when simply asked if the president was one, without any qualifiers.
Do you sometimes refer to X by its old name, Twitter? That's okay. Even Elon Musk, the man who changed Twitter's name to X, still occasionally refers to
"I was scrolling through my emails, and it said my Twitter account had been flagged for inappropriate … I don't even tweet anymore," Burr said.
X is owned by Musk, the world’s richest man. He’s a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump and has faced increasingly loud public criticism in recent months. This local pushback surfaces as his electric-vehicle company, Tesla, is set to open a full-scale dealership in the city’s south end.
Mr. Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits.
The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.