I'm kind of focused on Elon selling Starlink to Russia for use against Ukraine when the US miliary is paying him for Starlink for Ukraine.
Pretty sure this one is the story that has long term impact, being drowned by fucking press cycle clickbait fluff.
A US defense contractor supplying services to a sanctioned government.
Starlink issued a long, official sounding statememt that denied everything except the actual allegation:
Russian troops are using Starlink inside Ukraine.
Whole statement, never addressed the report.
@Cosmichomicide Sounds more like Russian troops might have captured Starlink terminals on the battlefield, or acquired them through third parties.
What is the original source?
Ukrainian military and Russian bragging. I hate that the link is Newsweek, but it's got the 411.
Read the dodgy Starlink response. I guess if that was the case they would have said so.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-starlink-ukraine-war-elon-musk-1868125
@Cosmichomicide A couple of anonymous posts on Zombie Twitter are not exactly authoritative. I get a lot of stuff that strikes me as algorithms Elon is running to generate content.
There's a lot of disinformation going on in that war, on both sides. Who knows if someone is who they say they are.
Yes, everyone knows Elon is above drug fueled, petty edgelord, king of the world, influencer of earth, high pitched giggling actions.
There's a lot of disinformation from Elon. That alone should lose him and any company he remains in active operation of government contracts.
I think it's much more plausible than not, given Tucker/Putin, Disney, South Africa (they won't license Starlink so he's squealing white genocide), replacement theory, etc. YMMV.
He's in God Mode and arranging propaganda interviews between Tucker and Putin. He's wallowing in his perceived cleverness, fooling all the pigeons in the crowd.
But he's neutral. Sure.
He already did it once. And no one was calling for him to go to rehab then.