More and more major subreddits have recently banned links to the Twitter (X) platform purchased by Elon Musk – some even banned screenshots. The reason for this is a gesture by Musk – he showed an alleged Hitler salute at US President Trump's swearing-in ceremony.
The new administration is emailing government employees draft resignation letters. Musk sent a similar email to Twitter staff in 2022.
The tech billionaire and top Trump ally visited the General Services Administration, which appears to be a key part of his crusade to cut the cost of government buildings.
Elon Musk pinned an old post to his X account cheekily recalling his 2022 “Fork in the Road” email to then-Twitter employees, offering the workers of the company he’d just purchased a chance to “be part of the new Twitter” by simply clicking “yes” by the end of the following day.
Musk makes his first federal political contribution in 2003, the same year he becomes chairman of Tesla. According to Federal Election Commission records, he gave the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign $2,000 that year, and the same amount to Democratic nominee John Kerry’s presidential campaign the following year.
In a move straight out of the Twitter and Tesla playbook, Elon Musk is apparently camping out just steps away from the White House.
In January 2025, a post about tech billionaire Elon Musk, purportedly written by someone who knew him for years, was shared widely online. Philip Low, a scientist and founder of NeuroVigil, a company that developed a portable brain activity monitor,
The Trump administration offered an ultimatum to some federal employees asking them to choose if they want to resign in a pitch that echoes Elon Musk's moves at Twitter.
Elon Musk's social media platform labeled his own argument "objectively false" over the weekend. A community note added to an X, formerly Twitter, post that Musk penned on Sunday blasted the X owner's remarks about subways being more efficient than cars "objectively false.
The major shift comes after the e-commerce giant withdrew much of its advertising from the platform more than a year ago due to concerns over hate speech. In 2023, Apple also pulled all of its advertising from X and has recently been in discussions about testing ads on the platform,
Alsobrooks is right. Experts say there is no validity to the study RFK Jr references. And furthermore, racial bias in pain diagnosis, or the assumption that Black people are inherently stronger or more tolerable to pain, has been hurting Black Americans for decades.