On Friday, Elon Musk appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and falsely claimed that the government shutdown was a dispute over blue states diverting billions of dollars in fraudulent federal payments to undocumented immigrants.

With Tesla reporting a 37% quarterly dip in its net income last week, chief executive Elon Musk appeared focused on anything but the automaker’s vehicle sales.

Once a leading liberal voice in tech, billionaire Marc Benioff has shifted his support to President Trump, following the lead of many of his peers in Silicon Valley.

Jeff Bezos is the fourth-wealthiest person on Earth, with a net worth of approximately $240 billion. In 2022, Bezos said he would give away most of his wealth during his lifetime. The process is not going well.

The push to ban TikTok in the U.S. began with allegations that it was undermining the Israeli government. It now seems poised to end with tech oligarch Larry Ellison, a close ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, overseeing the video platform’s powerful algorithm.

Last week, OpenAI presented its plans to build $1 trillion of AI infrastructure, including sprawling data centers across the U.S. that will require immense amounts of power and freshwater. OpenAI’s announcement and a flurry of deals that followed have driven the stock market to record highs.

In August, Skydance Media, a firm funded by Larry Ellison and led by his son David, completed an $8 billion merger with Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS. Now, the elder Ellison also has eyes set on TikTok, the social media app owned by a company based in China.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is seeking to expand its work for the government, including securing contracts involving the country's most sensitive national security information.

A think tank with ties to right-wing billionaires Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Charles Koch, the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI), is pushing a radical plan to replace large swaths of the federal government with artificial intelligence.

One of China's largest companies claimed to have purchased a stake in Elon Musk's SpaceX, a vital U.S. defense contractor.

Elon Musk has recently launched a local charm offensive in the Memphis, Tennessee, neighborhoods where his artificial intelligence startup has become a leading polluter through its illicit use of smog-creating gas turbines.

On April 24, Elon Musk's $9 billion neurotechnology company falsely self-certified as a "small disadvantaged business" (SDB) on a federal filing, a designation that qualifies the company for preferential treatment as part of a racial and ethnic diversity initiative.

Following his split with Trump over a deficit-ballooning spending bill, Musk announced that he will form a new political party. The America Party will challenge the incumbent Republicans who failed to produce the spending cuts he had envisaged when he spent nearly $300 million to help elect Trump.

Grok, the "artificial intelligence" chatbot built by Elon Musk's xAI company, praised Adolf Hitler in a series of recent posts on X. On multiple occasions, the chatbot even referred to itself as "MechaHitler" and appeared to call for another holocaust.

In 2023, radio astronomers discovered that satellites from SpaceX's Starlink constellation were emitting signals far outside the frequency bands that the internet service is authorized to use. The company managed to reduce leakage. But the problem returned in full force last year.

Musk claimed last week that Tesla had completed a successful "launch" of its self-driving robotaxi product. But Bryant Walker Smith, a scholar on self-driving technology and regulatory law at the University of South Carolina, disputed the notion that Tesla is operating an autonomous car service.

Soon after Grok's rollout in 2023, conservatives began complaining that the chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI startup was infected with left-wing thought. Musk agreed with its critics. But after a year and a half of development, Grok has still not harmonized with its creator's political outlook.

The fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk could imperil a missile defense program that is the defining defense priority of Trump's second term.

Elon Musk attributed his departure from the Trump administration last week to unavoidable bureaucratic rules. “My time as a special government employee necessarily had to end, it was a limited-time thing," Musk said on Friday. But that doesn't tell the full story.

Trump scolded South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, falsely claiming that the country is allowing a "genocide" of white people. It is a fictitious narrative that has been brewing in conservative media. But it was Elon Musk who helped shoehorn the theory into official presidential talking points.

DOGE was sold to the American public under the guise of cost-cutting. In this regard it has failed. DOGE has had much more success expanding the executive branch's domestic surveillance capacity.

"Well, I think we can do at least $2 trillion." That was the cut to federal spending promised by Elon Musk in late October. But for fiscal year 2026, Musk Watch's DOGE Tracker could verify just $5.02 billion in savings produced by DOGE. $5.02 billion is about 0.25% of the $2 trillion Musk touted.

Not long after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Elon Musk’s $7 billion tunneling company registered as a small business on a government portal for federal contractors. The Boring Company registered with the System for Award Management portal exactly one week after Trump’s victory.

A recent ProPublica report found that SpaceX, Elon Musk’s privately owned rocket company, discreetly allows Chinese investors to purchase its shares through offshore investment schemes. The investments are made through special-purpose vehicles used to conceal investors’ identities.

The largest claimed savings from a contract canceled by the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) involves cutting off funds for the legal representation of thousands of unaccompanied minors.

Susan Crawford defeated Musk-backed conservative Brad Schimel on Tuesday, securing a pivotal spot on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Musk spent at least $25 million supporting Schimel, including on a sweepstakes in which he handed out three $1 million checks to voters who signed a petition.

Elon Musk announced on Friday that xAI, his artificial intelligence company, had purchased his social media platform X. The all-stock transaction between the two private companies valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion in equity, plus $12 billion in debt.

In Wisconsin, an Elon Musk-backed super PAC is offering voters $100 in exchange for their contact information and signatures on a petition condemning “activist judges.” The scheme was launched 2 weeks before a state Supreme Court election that could shift the partisan balance of the highest court.

A “conundrum” that asks young school children whether humans would be better off being governed by an AI overlord. This is an “open-ended” question that an Elon Musk-linked online education program poses to elementary and middle school-aged children.

Yesterday, we launched the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker. This new tool authoritatively demonstrated that Elon Musk had been grossly overstating the cuts implemented by DOGE. Within hours, Musk personally attacked the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker on X.

Elon Musk claims that the U.S. DOGE Service (DOGE) has already saved taxpayers over $100 billion. In an appearance on Fox Business this week, Musk claimed he was saving $4 billion per day and was on track to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget. Is that true?

In an affidavit filed in federal court on Friday, a former senior civil servant at the Social Security Administration (SSA) detailed how deputies for Elon Musk forced their way into the agency, formed a clandestine unit, and gained access to its most sensitive databases.

In a series of social media posts last month, White House advisor and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called for deorbiting the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as 2027. The move could be a financial windfall for SpaceX long before anyone sets foot on Mars.

On February 3, a report by Popular Information and Musk Watch broke the news that several Elon Musk associates working for the U.S. DOGE Service (DOGE) received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

On February 17, Elon Musk and DOGE claimed they had already cut $55 billion in government spending. But the data was littered with duplicate entries, data errors, and items that demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of the federal contracting process.

At an open house in Fairbanks on Monday, Alaska Congressman Nick Begich (R) told constituents that there was nothing he could do to stop agency budget cuts being implemented by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.

Meta removed an advertisement earlier this month criticizing Elon Musk’s use of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to seize Americans' private information.

When Elon Musk met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, the pair was seated in front of the American and Indian flags, an arrangement that typically accompanies a meeting between world leaders. The summit was held at Blair House, a building used to host foreign dignitaries.

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s DOGE, launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” web addresses that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to his site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material and racial slurs.

With Elon Musk's social media platform X poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about X's competitors, an official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) told Musk Watch.

On Monday, Musk Watch broke the news that several associates of Elon Musk received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees. On Tuesday, the report was cited in a motion for a temporary restraining order.

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Several of Elon Musk’s associates (including two recent high school graduates) installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

President Trump campaigned on the promise that he would take a hard line on China, imposing massive tariffs on all Chinese goods entering the U.S. Since taking office, however, Trump has quickly abandoned those policies, instead promising much more modest tariffs on China — or none at all.