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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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1 entry: Disputed claims about countries · IndiaClear filters

Claims about countries that governments, courts or fact-checkers disputed or found false.

2024 1

Disputed claims

Musk post on eliminating voting machines prompts exchange with India's former IT minister

Musk wrote We should eliminate electronic voting machines, citing hacking risk. When former IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said Indian EVMs were secure, Musk replied Anything can be hacked.

Response: Chandrasekhar wrote that Indian EVMs are custom designed, secure and isolated from any network or media and called Musk's view a huge sweeping generalisation. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wrote t…

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