Three years since the world’s richest man rebranded the social media platform as X, it is awash with racism and conspiracy theories – but remains a powerful tool in his arsenal
The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck
It was touted as the future of motoring, but has proved to be a turkey in a stainless steel jacket
Lib Dems set to lay down law for Musk in UK
Billionaire could be arrested and brought before Commons speaker
What would Orwell have made of Musk?
The Nineteen Eighty-Four author feared the American Right would use his work as a propaganda tool. Prophetic again…
Prepare for revolution now, Elon Musk tells London rally
US tech billionaire calls for downfall of Labour government in speech to 110,000 marchers at Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom protest
Musk flies a drone fleet over Surrey – but luckily, it’s not Elon
Kimbal Musk’s drone light show may be an alarming sight, but it’s nothing to fear
Musk’s $30bn stock option proves tech CEO pay is ‘bonkers’
US tech companies are betting big on charismatic leaders – and the UK is starting to follow suit
Tesla could end up like Ford: losing its pole position to dull rivals
The firm is vulnerable not because of Musk’s involvement with Trump, but because lots of good, rival electric cars mean it has no market power
Musk’s chatbot praises Hitler then says ‘sorry, my bad, I fell for a hoax’
Grok AI had been instructed not to ‘shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect’
The Chris Riddell cartoon: draining the swamp
The Chris Riddell cartoon: Taco and Big Mac
Elon Musk's term was a bad drug dream
Trump’s tech bro who slashed, crashed and then finally fell to Earth
Elon Musk thought he could shrink America’s mighty federal bureaucracy. The signs are that he simply wasn’t thinking straight
The networker: Elon Musk has gone full blitzkrieg
Elon Musk has gone full blitzkrieg in his mission to ‘eliminate’ waste in the US federal government
Do panic: Elon Musk’s obsession with The Hitchhiker’s Guide
Douglas Adams’s sci-fi satire on bureaucracy is inspiring Musk’s assault on government. He should have read it more carefully
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