Tag: Musks
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Cards Against Humanity offers payouts to new swing-state voters, responding to Musk’s PAC
The company behind the game Cards Against Humanity is aiming to one-up Elon Musk with its plan to pay blue-leaning swing-state residents who make a voting plan and agree to publicly condemn Donald Trump. The company announced Tuesday an initiative to encourage people who didn’t vote in 2020 to go to the polls this year,…
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Musk’s PAC offers $47 payouts to refer swing state voters to sign petition
Elon Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC is offering people $47 if they successfully get one registered swing-state voter to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution. “Easy money,” Musk said in a post about the initiative. The payout offer appears to be a way to financially encourage voter registration of individuals…
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Supreme Court turns away Musk’s X appeal over Trump criminal investigation
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal brought by X, Elon Musk’s social media company, declining to decide whether prosecutors should have been able to obtain data from the former president Donald Trump Twitter account without him being notified. The case arose as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump…
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Australian court upholds order for Musk’s X to pay fine over anti-child abuse inquiry
SYDNEY, Australia — A court in Australia upheld an order on Friday for Elon Musk’s X to pay a fine of 610,500 Australian dollars ($418,000) for failing to cooperate with a regulator’s request for information about anti-child-abuse practices. X had challenged the fine, but the Federal Court of Australia ruled that it was obliged to…
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Elon Musk’s Starlink brings internet — and politics — to storm-ravaged areas
Starlink, the satellite internet service from SpaceX, is poised to become a crucial lifeline in parts of southern Appalachia that were devastated by Hurricane Helene. The Biden administration has announced it is planning to deploy dozens of ground-based Starlink devices that connect with satellites to provide internet services to remote areas. And the company has…
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Elon Musk’s popularity plummets to 6% among Democrats, poll finds
Elon Musk’s support among Democrats has withered to a new low as he has embraced Republican politics, according to a national NBC News poll. Only 6% of Democrats in the poll, which was conducted Sept. 13-17, said they had positive feelings about Musk, while 79% said they had negative feelings. The numbers were flipped for…