Fact Check: Did the EU give Musk 24 hours to comply over Starlink or face fines and bans?
MEAWW News reported: Fact Check: Did the EU give Musk 24 hours to comply over Starlink or face fines and bans?.
Australia1 sourcesThe Musk tracker
Elon Musk and governments worldwide
A sourced record of 215 statements and actions by Elon Musk and his companies since 2022: interventions in the politics, governments, courts and regulation of 44 countries and the European Union, threats and legal action against critics, and the use of market power against competitors. Each entry sets out what he said or did, the background, the response and what happened next.
215entries
45countries and the EU
147with an official response
35with a fact-check or court finding
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Australia1 sourcesRSS body urges Centre to deny licence to Musk's Starlink
Rediff reported: RSS body urges Centre to deny licence to Musk's Starlink.
Australia1 sourcesTrump NATO Amb Blames ‘Private Company’ For Starlink Disruption Week After Musk Denied It Was Him
AOL.com reported: Trump NATO Amb Blames ‘Private Company’ For Starlink Disruption Week After Musk Denied It Was Him.
Australia1 sources“Musk Is No Further Behind, Ambani No Further Ahead”: Tharoor on the Starlink Licence Row
Hindustan Herald reported: “Musk Is No Further Behind, Ambani No Further Ahead
: Tharoor on the Starlink Licence Row.”
Australia1 sources'Never feared competition': Reliance hits back at Musk over Starlink licence row
MillenniumPost reported: 'Never feared competition': Reliance hits back at Musk over Starlink licence row.
Australia1 sources2024 3
Musk says Australia's under-16 social media ban is a 'backdoor way to control access to the Internet'
After the government introduced a bill barring children under 16 from holding social media accounts, Musk wrote: Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians.
Response: Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Of course not
and Our job is not to come up with a social media policy to please Elon Musk.
Australia2 sourcesMusk replies 'Fascists' to Australia's proposed misinformation law
Musk replied Fascists
to a post linking a report on the Australian government's bill to fine platforms up to 5% of global revenue for enabling misinformation.
Response: Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the bill improves the transparency and accountability of platforms.
Minister Bill Shorten said "Elon Musk's had more positions on free speech than the…
Australia3 sourcesMusk calls Australia's eSafety Commissioner a 'censorship commissar' over stabbing video order
After Australia's eSafety Commissioner sought global removal of video of a Sydney church stabbing, and the Federal Court ordered the footage hidden pending a hearing, Musk described Commissioner Julie Inman Grant as the Australian censorship commissar.
Response: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called Musk an arrogant billionaire who thinks he's above the law
(AP) and told Sky News that Musk thinks he's above the law and above common decency.
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