In a move that has ignited debate over campaign finance ethics, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro expressed serious concerns regarding billionaire Elon Musk’s recent initiative to financially incentivize registered voters for signing a petition supporting “free speech and the right to bear arms.” During a Town Hall event in Harrisburg, PA, on Saturday, Musk announced he…
Elon Musk offers a $1 million giveaway to voters who sign his free-speech and gun-rights petition, entering a gray area of election law. Legal experts disagree on whether the billionaire supporter of Donald Trump violates prohibitions against paying people to register to vote. Musk, CEO of Tesla (TSLA.O), promises to award $1 million each day…
ocial media giant X became accessible to some Brazilian users on Wednesday, just one day after the country’s Supreme Court allowed Elon Musk’s platform to resume operations for complying with court rulings. Brazil’s telecommunications regulator, Anatel, announced that it has started instructing internet providers to restore access to X. By Wednesday, many users reported being…
Elon Musk and X have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who claimed they defrauded him by canceling a partnership on the social media platform following a contentious interview. In a filing submitted Monday night in San Francisco federal court, Musk argued that he did nothing…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Friday that it plans to seek sanctions against Elon Musk after he failed to appear for court-ordered testimony in the agency’s investigation of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. In a filing in San Francisco federal court, the SEC stated it would request an order compelling…
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered Elon Musk’s X to stop bypassing a previous ruling that suspended the social media platform in the country. If X fails to comply, it faces a daily fine of 5 million reais ($921,726.95), according to a decision issued late on Wednesday. X became accessible to many users in Brazil on…
Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes lifted freezes on Starlink and X bank accounts after transferring 18.35 million reais ($3.3 million) from those accounts to the national treasury. The court issued this lift after determining that the transferred amount satisfied the fines X owed to Brazil, resulting from a dispute between Elon Musk and…
Tensions between Brazil and Elon Musk’s business empire intensified as the country’s telecom regulator threatened to sanction his satellite broadband company, Starlink. This came just hours after Brazil’s top court upheld a controversial decision to ban the social network X from the country. Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expressed support for the top…
Brazil’s telecommunications regulator suspended access to Elon Musk’s X social network on Friday, following a court order from a judge who has been engaged in a months-long conflict with the billionaire investor. The suspension was triggered when X missed a court-imposed deadline on Thursday evening to appoint a legal representative in Brazil. Musk has argued…
A federal judge in Texas, assigned to hear a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s social media platform X against a group of advertisers, has removed himself from the case after reports revealed his ownership of shares in another Musk company, Tesla. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, recused himself in a one-paragraph…