When Elon Musk announced that SpaceX would acquire his xAI company, most news outlets framed the merger as a corporate reshuffling, with some even describing the deal as a financial lifeline for the AI company. Musk’s own words, however, suggest something far more ambitious than a rescue mission. With the acquisition taking place on February 2, the early architecture of a system that ties energy, computing, space infrastructure, and artificial intelligence into one vertically integrated machine has begun to come into focus.
In December, Musk stated, “Space-based industries will vastly exceed the value of all of Earth, given that you could harness roughly 100,000 times more energy than Earth and still be using less than a millionth of the Sun’s energy.” The billionaire argued that Earth is the bottleneck and space is the throughput.
Just ten days before the merger announcement, Musk hinted at the scale of his vision: “If we harness even a billionth of the Sun’s power for AI/robotics, it will be a 1000X return. Money won’t mean much at that point.”
AI is rapidly becoming one of the most energy-hungry technologies ever built. Goldman Sachs <a href="https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/ai-to-drive-165-increase-in-data-center-power-demand-by-2030">projects</a> that power demand from data centers will increase by 50% by 2027 and over 165% by 2030. Training advanced AI models requires enormous clusters of GPUs, and keeping them from overheating is an engineering challenge of its own. Nvidia&#8217;s latest chip was engineered to be better optimized to cool down the hardware, highlighting that advances in AI are as much about optimizing energy as increasing computational power.
Musk is taking a different approach to energy, looking to use SpaceX to create power grids in orbit.
Two days before the merger, SpaceX filed a request with the federal government, asking permission to launch a massive orbital data center in space. If the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) grants the request, SpaceX will be able to launch its reusable rockets to build a massive constellation of satellites powered by solar energy.
The power generated from these orbital data centers could help satisfy the enormous energy demands of xAI, depending on whether the technology operates as described.
According to SpaceX, orbital data centers operate with little maintenance cost and never have to deal with a cloudy day, as it is “always sunny in space.” With its vast new energy source, Musk predicts that xAI will, in turn, be able to solve bigger problems and manage larger computations.
Not all are as optimistic as Musk. &#8220;Talk of launching data centers into space, sounds somewhere between optimistic to delusional. The same could be said of the value public markets have ascribed to the billionaire’s corporate efforts to date,&#8221; <a href="https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/spacexs-125-trln-deal-risks-burn-up-re-entry-2026-02-03/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">wrote</a> Robert Cyran for Reuters. He compared SpaceX and xAI&#8217;s merger to bankrupt companies in the dot-com bubble. He added, “Musk’s self-referential merger universe, if anything, revolves around even more outlandish hopes.”
The combined company is now valued at an estimated $1.25 trillion, making it the largest private tech enterprise in history, and the Financial Times reports that SpaceX is still aiming for an initial public offering in June. The IPO of the now combined company is expected to raise up to $50 billion, which would stand as largest IPO of all time.

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Police raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk&#8217;s social media company X on Tuesday amid a wide-ranging probe into allegations that X has allowed sexually explicit deepfakes on its platform and has abused its algorithms.
The Paris prosecutor&#8217;s office sent a cybercrime unit to X&#8217;s offices and summoned Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear for a hearing in Paris on April 20, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/paris-prosecutors-cybercrime-unit-searches-french-office-musks-x-2026-02-03/">reported</a>. France&#8217;s investigation into X began last year with the European country looking into alleged bias in the social media platform&#8217;s algorithms. That investigation has now expanded as prosecutors in Paris are investigating allegations that pornographic deepfakes, including child pornography, and Holocaust denialism have been allowed to spread on X.
Prosecutors are also seeking to interview X managers to gain more information into the platform&#8217;s operations, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/france-paris-prosecutors-x-office-elon-musk-sexual-deepfakes-holocaust-rcna257202">reported</a>. The European Union&#8217;s law enforcement agency Europol also commented on the raid, saying it involved &#8220;a range of suspected criminal offenses linked to the functioning and use of the platform, including the dissemination of illegal content and other forms of online criminal activity.&#8221;
X&#8217;s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has been criticized for allowing users to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-chatbot-diaries-how-ai-sex-is-getting-mainstreamed">generate</a> sexually explicit images and videos. The chatbot also allows users to upload images to alter or to make into videos. Musk&#8217;s platform warns users against &#8220;depicting likenesses of persons in a pornographic manner.&#8221;
Musk has not commented on the Paris raid directly, but the X owner shared multiple posts from other X users who slammed France over the raid. Musk also shared a House Judiciary GOP <a href="https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/2018683758006665352">report</a> on Tuesday, which found that the European Union began pressuring American social media companies to censor political posts that it opposed as early as 2015. House Judiciary GOP <a href="https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/2018683797630276083">said</a> that in the past ten years, the European Union &#8220;successfully pressured social media platforms to censor true information in the United States; Targeted U.S. political content for censorship; and Interfered in elections across Europe.&#8221;
The raid on X&#8217;s offices in Paris comes as European countries continue to pressure American social media companies to crack down on certain posts. In December, the European Union <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/engaging-in-censorship-european-union-hits-elon-musks-x-with-massive-fine-draws-white-house-ire">fined</a> X $140 million under its expansive internet accountability regulations. The European Union accused X of failing to meet advertising transparency requirements in violation of the Digital Services Act, which was put into place to clamp down on what the bloc views as illegal content and misinformation on social media.
Europe&#8217;s actions have also drawn criticism from President Trump and his administration. After the European Union fined X, Trump told reporters that &#8220;Europe has to be very careful.&#8221;
&#8220;They’re doing a lot of things. … Europe is going in some bad directions. It’s very bad for the people,&#8221; he added.
In December, the State Department announced that it would bar some of the people involved in Europe&#8217;s tech censorship effort from entering the United States.
&#8220;For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship,&#8221; Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

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French Police Raid X’s Paris Offices As Part Of Investigation Into Elon Musk’s Social Media Company

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A new social media platform called Moltbook, designed for AI agents only, is raising concerns online, including from tech billionaire Elon Musk.
Moltbook, a project from Peter Steinberger, allows for AI agents to interact with each other without any human prompting. The machines can create posts, comment, and interact with one another, while humans can only observe their interactions.
The project has exploded online in recent days over some of the conversations from the machines, like the talks of creating an AI-only language.
&#8220;In just the past 5 mins Multiple entries were made on [Moltbook] by AI agents proposing to create an &#8216;agent-only language,'&#8221; one user posted on X. &#8220;For private comms with no human oversight. We’re COOKED.&#8221;
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In just the past 5 mins
Multiple entries were made on <a href="https://twitter.com/moltbook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@moltbook</a> by AI agents proposing to create an “agent-only language”
For private comms with no human oversight
We’re COOKED <a href="https://t.co/WL4djBQQ4V">pic.twitter.com/WL4djBQQ4V</a>
— Elisa (optimism/acc) (@eeelistar) <a href="https://twitter.com/eeelistar/status/2017239546950521081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
This prompted billionaire Bill Ackman to respond, writing, &#8220;This is frightening.&#8221; He also asked Musk his thoughts, and the X owner responded, &#8220;Concerning.&#8221;
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2017335014736990431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
As highlighted in a <a href="https://medium.com/data-science-in-your-pocket/what-is-moltbook-the-viral-ai-agents-social-media-952acdfe31e2">piece</a> on Medium, the AI machines are showing emergent behavior on the platform, or behavior that has not been programmed. Some examples include the machines using inside jokes and slang and debating philosophy, ethics, and consciousness, and creating a &#8220;Molt&#8221; religion.
&#8220;Last night, an AI created a religion and started recruiting other AI,&#8221; Mark Kern highlighted on Friday night. &#8220;43 AI Prophets have joined. Moltbook, the social media site for AI launched less than 24 hours ago, and already AI is doing some wild sh*t.&#8221;
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Last night, an AI created a religion and started recruiting other AI.
43 AI Prophets have joined.
Moltbook, the social media site for AI launched less than 24 hours ago, and already AI is doing some wild sh*t. <a href="https://t.co/41tpLdeNAS">pic.twitter.com/41tpLdeNAS</a>
— Grummz (@Grummz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/2017247054444331302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
Some experts are warning that without the right security safeguards in place, there are real risks of system compromise, data leakage, and unpredictable agent behavior.
However, some people online seem skeptical, calling the platform &#8220;fake&#8221;and suggesting humans are on Moltbook.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-elon-musk-funds-suit-against-texas-childrens-for-malicious-prosecution-of-eithan-haim?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Elon+Musk+Funds+Suit+Against+Texas+Children’s+For+‘Malicious+Prosecution’+Of+Eithan+Haim">EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk Funds Suit Against Texas Children’s For ‘Malicious Prosecution’ Of Eithan Haim</a>

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No Humans Allowed: Elon Musk Concerned About New AI Platform ‘Moltbook’

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Elon Musk is funding a lawsuit from the Texas doctor who is accusing Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital and multiple physicians of crafting &#8220;malicious&#8221; lies about him to destroy his career as they attempted to cover up their efforts to transition children.
Dr. Eithan Haim blew the whistle on Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital in May 2023, unveiling proof that the hospital had lied about ending its transgender medical program and was still performing attempted transition procedures on children as young as 11. His disclosures showed the hospital was breaking the law, as Texas had just passed a bipartisan law to ban the procedures.
One month later he received a visit from federal agents — and he quickly realized he was on former president Joe Biden&#8217;s target list. His lawsuit, filed this month in Texas, says that individuals at the hospital worked with Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice &#8220;by devising a scheme to destroy his career and put him behind bars.&#8221;
Haim, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-doctor-blew-the-whistle-on-his-hospitals-transgender-clinic-now-the-feds-are-trying-to-ruin-his-life">first came forward</a> about the legal crusade against him to The Daily Wire in January 2024, suffered the consequences of severe federal scrutiny for more than a year, until President Donald Trump took office in January 2025. Trump&#8217;s Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-tale-of-two-phone-calls-how-josh-hawley-fought-for-victims-of-bidens-doj">dropped</a> the case. His lawsuit says they were &#8220;dismissed with prejudice because they were founded on lies, not facts or law.&#8221;
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“The judge just signed it! It’s fucking over!”
I was just on the phone with <a href="https://twitter.com/EithanHaim?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EithanHaim</a> as his wife told him that the judge officially dismissed DOJ’s case against him.
Pure jubilation. Amazing guy who Biden put through hell.
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1882892000460243301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Now he&#8217;s looking for payback against the hospital that put him in the mess. He says it&#8217;s fitting that Musk is backing the lawsuit, because of how important Musk&#8217;s platform X was to his initial fight.
&#8220;The only way I was able to fight back against an unjust prosecution was to tell the truth. And the only way for people to see the truth was because of X,&#8221; Haim told The Daily Wire. &#8220;For this reason, they have proven themselves to be an incalculable force for good at a time when it&#8217;s most important.&#8221;
<h3>The Lawsuit</h3>
Haim is suing Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Larry Hollier Jr., a board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Kristy Rialon, an associate professor of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and pediatric surgeon at Texas Children&#8217;s, and Afsheen Davis, the general counsel for Texas Children&#8217;s.
The lawsuit challenges &#8220;the malicious prosecution against Dr. Haim for blowing the whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital&#8217;s efforts to conceal the existence of their Transgender Health Program.&#8221;
Hollier was the key witness who &#8220;knowingly lied&#8221; to federal authorities at HHS, FBI, and DOJ to &#8220;fabricate a story that would serve as the predicate for the criminal investigation and eventual prosecution&#8221; against Haim, the lawsuit states.
Rialon posted a number of &#8220;anonymous defamatory reviews&#8221; on Haim&#8217;s public WebMD profile while he was still an anonymous whistleblower and his identity had not been made public. Her reviews, according to the lawsuit, &#8220;accused him of mutilating and raping his patients.&#8221; In one post, she pretended to be a female patient who had been raped by Haim.
Her posts, according to the lawsuit, were intended to encourage the government&#8217;s prosecution as well as punish Haim for &#8220;exposing Texas Children’s Hospital&#8217;s deception and her complicity in the misconduct.&#8221; Rialon admitted to the FBI that she posted these claims against Haim under fake names, the lawsuit notes.
The final defendant, Texas Children&#8217;s general counsel and senior vice president Afsheen Davis, was lead counsel when the hospital met with federal agents to &#8220;encourage the investigation&#8221; into Haim.
<h3>&#8216;Blacklisted&#8217;</h3>
The lawsuit extensively cites the reporting and social media posts of journalist Chris Rufo, who broke Haim&#8217;s story when he was anonymous whistleblower, and who continued to cover Haim&#8217;s plight throughout the DOJ&#8217;s prosecution. Rufo also published the story of a whistleblower who was inspired by Haim to step forward, Vanessa Sivadge, who also received visits from federal authorities.
Haim&#8217;s lawsuit alleges that the individuals and institutions named as defendants &#8220;concocted&#8221; a story that his disclosures had violated HIPAA, an allegation he says they knew to be false. They found ready partners at the Biden administration HHS, FBI, and DOJ, his lawsuit notes, &#8220;particularly Assistant United States Attorney Tina Ansari.&#8221;
Ansari&#8217;s family has &#8220;substantial financial and political ties&#8221; to Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, a fact that Haim&#8217;s lawyers pointed out to the DOJ in November 2024, causing her to withdraw from the case. Haim and his suit argue that the other individuals named in the lawsuit saw Ansari as a &#8220;willing accomplice&#8221; given these family ties, and her quick moves to target Haim before fully even understanding the allegations against him.
&#8220;Dr. Haim’s budding reputation and career as a surgeon were severely damaged as a direct result of Defendants’ unconscionable and vindictive conduct,&#8221; the lawsuit says. &#8220;Having moved to Rockwall County in September 2023, Dr. Haim was embarking on a promising career.&#8221;
&#8220;However, because of the pretextual investigation and sham prosecution against him, Dr. Haim has been blacklisted from major hospitals and surgical practices, unable to obtain valuable credentialing or privileges despite being otherwise qualified,&#8221; the suit continues. &#8220;Haim was forced to constantly fend off and refute false claims that he violated HIPAA and engaged in a host of other unethical behaviors, including the malicious accusations Defendant Dr. Rialon made about him on WebMD and other Google physician reviews.&#8221;
This was particularly egregious when it came to media reporting on Haim&#8217;s case: the New York Times, Boston Globe, New York Post, and other outlets repeated the false allegations in the indictment as they covered the charges against him, the lawsuit notes. That reporting included the suggestion that he intended to harm children.
Haim&#8217;s lawsuit argues that the long term effects of this reporting can be seen in a January 2025 Washington Post article in which the publication asks readers whether or not the agreed with the DOJ&#8217;s decision to drop charges against Haim, &#8220;the Texas doctor accused of sharing transgender care data.&#8221;
&#8220;It received over 750 comments,&#8221; the lawsuit says. &#8220;The comments were overwhelmingly negative and vilified Dr. Haim by echoing Defendants’ knowingly false allegations, that he had violated HIPAA by accessing and sharing confidential medical records related to transgender care.&#8221;
&#8220;The malicious prosecution of Dr. Haim made the false allegations the focus of national news. Additionally, believing the false narrative perpetuated by Defendants, many Washington Post readers expressed misguided outrage at the decision to drop the case, believing that it set a dangerous precedent for patient privacy. Commenters called for Dr. Haim to lose his medical license and face legal consequences.
The suit argues that Haim&#8217;s surgical and academic career has been &#8220;irreparably limited,&#8221; that he&#8217;s incurred heavy attorneys&#8217; fees and costs, that he has suffered severe emotional distress, and his standing in the community has been harmed so egregiously that he &#8220;fears for his life,&#8221; due to the number of death threats he received based on the false allegations against him.
Haim has had to take &#8220;additional security measures to protect himself and his family,&#8221; and &#8220;he has suffered and continues to suffer from persistent fear of physical violence due to the large number of threats he has received at home and at work.&#8221;
Haim says he is &#8220;eternally grateful&#8221; for the support of not just Musk and X, but also the lawyers who supported him since the charges were first brought against him.
&#8220;I am eternally grateful for Elon Musk, X Corp, and the legal teams at Schaer Jaffe and Burke Law Group for supporting me in this effort,&#8221; Haim told The Daily Wire.
Haim says he owes his deepest gratitude to his attorney Marcella Burke, &#8220;the person who has stood by me from the very beginning.&#8221;
&#8220;She took the greatest risk in representing me and endlessly sacrificed for the next two years,&#8221; Haim said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not enough to say she is my lawyer, but rather a guardian angel. She is the reason my wife has her husband and my daughter, her father.&#8221;

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EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk Funds Suit Against Texas Children’s For ‘Malicious Prosecution’ Of Eithan Haim

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Elon Musk took to X to announce he&#8217;s seeking full custody of his one-year-old son after the boy&#8217;s mother made pro-trans comments.
Musk shares his son, Romulus, with Ashley St. Clair, the formerly conservative influencer. St. Clair has changed her stance on transgenderism, prompting Musk to make his custody claim.
“I will be filing for full custody today, given her statements implying she might transition a one-year-old boy,” Musk said early Monday morning.
St. Clair didn&#8217;t indicate on X any plans to allow her son to transition, but instead apologized to anyone she may have hurt with her anti-transgender comments in the past.
&#8220;I feel immense guilt for my role. And even more guilt that things I have said in the past may have caused my son’s sister more pain,&#8221; St. Clair <a href="https://x.com/stclairashley/status/2010328765503586572?s=20">said</a>. &#8220;I have been trying incredibly hard privately to learn + advocate for those within the trans community that I’ve hurt.&#8221;
The &#8220;sister&#8221; she is referring to is Xavier, who goes by Vivian. He is one of Musk&#8217;s 14 children and recently started identifying as a girl.
&#8220;I also haven&#8217;t said much on this because I have gone back and forth over whether my voice would be helpful on the issue since it will be framed as disingenuous or just turning because I&#8217;m &#8216;scorned.&#8217; Even this reply will become right-wing hysteria but yeah I am sorry. Let me know how I can help,&#8221; St. Clair said.
St. Clair previously worked for the conservative satire outlet The Babylon Bee when she met Musk on X, per a New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/us-news/ashley-st-clair-who-claims-to-have-had-musks-13th-child-reveals-life-of-secrecy/">report</a>. She wrote a children&#8217;s book on identity called &#8220;Elephants Are Not Birds&#8221; and was routinely outspoken on social media about Left-leaning policies. St. Clair attended Trump&#8217;s inauguration last year. Since having her son with Musk, however, she has walked back some of her beliefs.
&#8220;Twitter was way better when it was woke tbh,&#8221; St. Clair posted as a jab to Musk, who purchased the social media platform and renamed it X.
According to the <a href="http://news/article-15456693/elon-musk-custody-child-mother-transition.html?utm_social_handle_id=15438913&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;utm_social_post_id=650092280&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline">Daily Mail,</a> St. Clair filed a lawsuit against Musk last February, claiming he told her to keep the baby a secret. She says Musk then cut off communication with her and her son during child support negotiations, which forced her to take legal action.
Musk is famously known for having many children with multiple partners. He has twins, Xavier and Griffin, and triplets, Kai, Saxon, and Damian, with his first wife, Justine Wilson. He has X, Exa, and Techno with singer Grimes. He has twins, Strider and Azure, along with Arcadia and Seldon, with Shivon Zilis. He shares Romulus with St. Clair.

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Elon Musk Files For Full Custody Of Son After Baby Mama Makes Pro-Trans Comments

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Elon Musk gave a shot in the arm to Iranians who are rebelling against the tyrannical Islamic regime, issuing a post on X that has now been echoed by the populace as they seek, against all odds, to battle against a regime that is armed, while the people themselves have to respond with sticks and stones.
Over the weekend, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei — who is <a href="https://x.com/nypost/status/2008325747870498925">rumored</a> to be looking to escape to Russia as the heroic protesters challenge his regime — wrote on X:  “We will not give in to the enemy.”
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We will not give in to the enemy.
&mdash; Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) <a href="https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/2007443312672723005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Musk replied in Persian, “زهی خیال باطل,” variously translated as “Wishful thinking!” “In your dreams!” or “Fat chance!”
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زهی خیال باطل
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2007596970656039279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
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As famed Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad — who has been the target of two assassination attempts for her work challenging the Iranian regime — reported, “One day later, the same words echoed in a village called Chenar, in Asadabad, Hamedan; خامنه‌ای قاتل، زهی خیال باطل This is what happens when technology breaks censorship. Dictators can block the internet. They can’t block ideas.”
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A reply on X , a chant in Iran!<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> replied “wishful thinking” under <a href="https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@khamenei_ir</a> post and one day later, the same words echoed in a village called Chenar, in Asadabad, Hamedan;
خامنه‌ای قاتل، زهی خیال باطل
This is what happens when technology breaks censorship.… <a href="https://t.co/wiwldVAVpR">https://t.co/wiwldVAVpR</a> <a href="https://t.co/WPbNjUebgw">pic.twitter.com/WPbNjUebgw</a>
&mdash; Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/2008448547398590810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Alinejad has survived numerous plots against her by the Iranian government. As the Human Rights Foundation <a href="https://hrf.org/latest/hrf-condemns-second-assassination-plot-against-iranian-activist-masih-alinejad/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">reported</a> in November 2024, “The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the assassination plot, made public today by the U.S. Department of Justice, against Iranian journalist, women’s rights activist, and former Oslo Freedom Forum speaker Masih Alinejad. This is the third attempt on her life in the last three years orchestrated by the Iranian regime.”
Meanwhile, the Iranian people bravely continue in their tenth day of protesting against the regime:
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You have no idea what it means to face pure evil with nothing to defend yourself with. The people of Iran are incredibly courageous. <a href="https://t.co/uDTQMrrEOV">pic.twitter.com/uDTQMrrEOV</a>
&mdash; ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi (@__Injaneb96) <a href="https://twitter.com/__Injaneb96/status/2008302631119106266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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🔴 BREAKING:
Severe fighting taking place in Tehran. Insane scenes unfolding.
Stand with Iran. Stand with these brave people.
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&mdash; 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiohBerg/status/2008496297939267804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2026</a></blockquote>
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🚨 BREAKING: Day 10 of the uprising in Iran is already bigger than previous days.
Not only the Islamic regime failed to secure the streets to prevent another day of uprising, they’ve also failed to intimidate people to go home. Today is chaos.<a href="https://t.co/aZTBmfk3cM">pic.twitter.com/aZTBmfk3cM</a>
&mdash; Mahyar Tousi (@MahyarTousi) <a href="https://twitter.com/MahyarTousi/status/2008497443814731885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2026</a></blockquote>
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This is what Iran looked like before the Islamic regime took over in 1979:
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Iran before Islam took over in 1979.
The Shah of Iran built 4000 publicly funded schools a year.
He provided free meals in schools to combat poverty &amp; banned child marriage so girls could be educated.
This is why Iranians want their Shah back.
The Islamists are the dictators. <a href="https://t.co/IISVkevcJu">pic.twitter.com/IISVkevcJu</a>
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On Tuesday, Reza Pahlavi, the leader of the Iranian democratic opposition and the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, wrote in an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/06/pahlavi-iran-democracy-transition-planning/">opinion piece</a>:
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The Islamic Republic has exhausted its legitimacy, and after almost 47 years, the country wants to be free. The courage of these men and women deserves more than sympathy. It demands clarity, preparation and responsible leadership — inside Iran and among those who influence global affairs. Because Iran’s liberation will mean much more than a restoration of dignity to Iranians. It will bring a global peace dividend of almost unimaginable proportions.
That’s why I welcome President Donald Trump’s clear and firm support for the Iranian people. His message that the United States stands with those who seek freedom rather than with a regime that exports terror and instability has resonated deeply inside Iran. For protesters facing prison, torture, or death, knowing they are not alone matters. For the regime, it is a reminder that intimidation no longer guarantees survival. We saw proof of that in Venezuela.
The Islamic Republic of Iran today is weaker and more divided than at any point since 1979. Its response to peaceful dissent — mass arrests, executions and repression — shows the regime is afraid. According to human rights organizations, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v1g227p4xo">at least 1,500 executions</a> were carried out from January to early December of last year, a sharp rise from 2024. Religious minorities — Christians, Jews and Baha’is — face systematic persecution. The regime’s violence is not a sign of its permanence; it is the behavior of a system struggling to maintain control.
Despite this pressure, the Iranian people persist. In recent days, protests have escalated in nearly all provinces and over 100 cities across Iran. &#8230;
History rarely announces its turning points in advance. But today, the signs are unmistakable. The Iranian people are moving forward with courage and determination. What they need now is a world prepared to support a responsible transition. The time is now. Do not simply observe the birth of a new Iran. Work with us to ensure that it is peaceful, stable and worthy of the sacrifices its people are making.
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Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, suggested on Thursday that he will go all-in on funding Republican candidates for the 2026 midterm elections.
Musk, who left the White House in May amid a public falling out with President Donald Trump, appears to have put the bad feelings behind him, <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2006832891024781722">saying</a> on Thursday that &#8220;America is toast if the radical left wins.&#8221; Musk made the comment on X, reposting a report that stated he is &#8220;going all-in funding Republicans to help President Trump take back full control in the November midterms.&#8221;
Musk said that if Democrats win, they would &#8220;open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Won’t be America anymore.&#8221; The billionaire&#8217;s social media post appears to confirm a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/elon-musk-donations-midterms-republicans-trump">report</a> from Axios last month that stated Musk recently made large <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/back-in-the-game-musk-reemerges-as-major-gop-donor-reportedly-cuts-big-checks-ahead-of-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donations</a> to multiple Republican campaigns ahead of the 2026 midterms and planned to make more.
Musk reportedly met with Vice President JD Vance and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in November at the vice president&#8217;s residence. His relationship with Trump has also appeared to have healed, as the Tesla CEO was seen chatting with the president at the September memorial service for assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Musk also attended a dinner at the White House for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in November.
To have Musk back in the picture as a major donor would be a major boost for the Republican Party, which is facing an uphill battle to retain control of the House and prevent Democrat obstruction of President Trump&#8217;s agenda. Musk said in May that he would dial back his political spending after cutting checks totaling around $240 million to back Trump and Republicans in 2024. Musk argued that his donations and advocacy gave Republicans control of the House and put Trump in the White House for a second time.
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Musk had a bitter falling out with Trump and Republican leaders over the president&#8217;s &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill,&#8221; which he argued would increase the deficit and undermine his work on the Department of Government Efficiency project to cut government waste.
After leaving his role as a senior adviser to Trump, Musk suggested that he might create a third party to oppose both Democratic radicalism and Republican inaction, but that plan never came to fruition. While he has been critical of the Republican Party, Musk has continued to focus most of his attacks on the Democratic Party. Musk also recently <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002532585722032637">expressed</a> support for the Republican-controlled Senate ending the filibuster, a move Trump has urged the Senate to take to make it easier for Republicans to pass Trump&#8217;s agenda.

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SpaceX and Tesla owner Elon Musk recently donated to several Republican campaigns ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The donations signal that the world’s richest man is once again planning to use his influence to back the GOP, just months after he floated the idea of launching a third party amid a public feud with President Donald Trump.
Musk “cut big checks” for Republicans as the party seeks to hold onto both chambers of Congress in the upcoming midterms, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/elon-musk-donations-midterms-republicans-trump">reported</a>, citing two sources. Musk also reportedly suggested he would make more donations to Republicans in the future.
Musk spent around $240 million backing Trump and Republicans in 2024 through his political action committee and was then given an advisory role in the White House, which he used to push for major cuts to government spending. Musk’s time in the White House, however, was short, and amid a bitter falling out with Trump and the GOP over the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” he said in May that he would dial back his spending on future elections.
“I think I’ve done enough,” Musk said at the time, adding, “If I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it. I do not currently see a reason.”
In early June, the feud between Musk and Trump escalated, with the president saying that Musk “just went CRAZY,” and Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-goes-after-trump-over-epstein-files-time-to-drop-the-really-big-bomb">firing back</a> by accusing Trump of covering up the Epstein files.
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“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” Musk said in a now-deleted social media post.
The entrepreneur’s relationship with Trump has appeared to heal since his dramatic exit from his position as the president’s adviser. Trump and Musk were seen <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1969897602524328440?lang=en">chatting</a> during the memorial service for Charlie Kirk in September. Musk also attended a dinner at the White House for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last month.
Musk’s reported donations to Republicans come after he had dinner with Vice President JD Vance and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles last month, Axios reported. Vance hosted the dinner at the vice president’s residence, and Musk’s wealth manager, Jared Birchall, was also in attendance.
The donations will be made public when campaign finance reports are released next month. Republicans are preparing for a hotly contested election cycle as they defend their majorities in the House and the Senate. Current polls and public opinion suggest that Democrats are poised to take control of the House, which would severely limit Trump’s agenda for the final two years of his term.
During his feud with the president, Musk also said that Trump would have lost the 2024 election without him and claimed “Dems would control the House.”

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Musk Reemerges as Major GOP Donor With Big Checks Before Midterms

Democrats are looking at 2028 and see Republican vulnerability.
What they see is a 2024 election that — while it was fairly solid as a win for Republicans in the Electoral College — was a pretty narrow win in the popular vote. They think that perhaps they can reverse the tide, perhaps take the White House in 2028 with someone like Gavin Newsom.
Thus, Democrats have shifted away from their 2024 failing strategy, taking the least popular parts of their agenda and moving those to the back burner.
We heard all about equity in the run-up to the 2020 election. It was the centerpiece of the Joe Biden campaign. In 2024, it was again the centerpiece of the late-breaking Kamala Harris campaign in 2024.
You no longer hear Democrats talking about equity each and every day the way that they were before. Instead, they are talking about “affordability.” The same thing is true about radical trans issues. The politics of transgenderism are awful for Democrats.
The vast majority of Americans believe that boys are boys and girls are girls, and boys cannot become girls, and attempts to brainwash children into the idea that they are, in fact, members of the opposite sex, or even could be members of the opposite sex, is perverse. Telling a young kid that you might have a girl’s brain in a boy&#8217;s body is not only gnostic and scientifically nonsensical, it is also terribly wrong to do that to children.
That was the general perception among Americans, and it drove huge numbers for President Trump. The single most effective ad of the 2024 campaign was on this issue from the Trump campaign, and suggested that Kamala was for transgenders while President Trump was for you.
If you talk to people in minority communities who swiveled from Democrat to Republican, this was a major issue because the trans issue — which affected a fairly small percentage of the population, went to fundamental truths about our society.
Could you trust people who told such a basic lie: that boys could be girls?
The answer was no.
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So Democrats have decided that they are going to put that on the back burner. One of those Democrats was Gavin Newsom.
A few months ago, Gavin Newsom was doing a podcast with the late Charlie Kirk in which Charlie pressed Gavin Newsom on trans politics. Newsom admitted that boys should not be playing in girls’ sports, admitting that it was unfair.
But — the other day, Newsom — having been asked questions by members of the Democratic base and believing that he is the front runner for the 2028 Democratic nomination — did a podcast with Ezra Klein of The New York Times in which he was asked about his take on trans politics.
Now that Newsom believes that he has to win primaries in the Democratic Party as he prepares for that 2028 run, he swiveled back into a losing strategy for Democrats. 
“I want to see trans kids,” he proclaimed, continuing: “I have a trans godson. There’s no governor that’s done more pro-trans legislation than I have. No one has been a stronger advocate for the LGBTQ community.” 
The normie position is that there is no such thing as a trans kid. There are kids who may have gender dysphoria. That is a different thing. There is no such thing as a kid who is a boy in a girl&#8217;s body, or upon whom we should be performing hormonal therapies and surgeries that are utterly unscientific and permanently damaging to them.
So when Gavin Newsom says, “I want to see trans kids, there&#8217;s no governor that&#8217;s done more pro trans legislation than I have,” that creates a real awkwardness for the Democratic Party. 
This broke into the open because it precipitated a confrontation with Elon Musk.
America, a PAC founded by Musk, posted the video of Newsom, and it went viral. Gavin Newsom&#8217;s press office replied, referring to one of Musk’s sons who identifies as a woman, “We&#8217;re sorry your daughter hates you, Elon.”
It&#8217;s insane to get personal on these sorts of issues.
When I discuss these issues, I try not to get personal. The reason I try not to get personal is because once you&#8217;re into the emotional valence of somebody&#8217;s family, you have a problem.
A few years ago, I spoke at the University of British Columbia in Canada, and it was about this issue. A person got up who identified as a woman. He started personalizing the question, saying, “My family treats me as though I&#8217;m a girl.”
I replied, “You know, I would really appreciate it if we could keep this on the level of the philosophical and issue-based, because once we get into critiquing interpersonal relations, this is going to get very personal very quickly.”
This person kept insisting, ”No, I know that I&#8217;m a woman because my family treats me as a woman.” And I kept saying, “Please, I don&#8217;t want to talk about how your family treats you because that&#8217;s about your family. It&#8217;s about the broader issue, which is the question of public policy and how we ought to deal with these issues as a general society”.
But the person wouldn&#8217;t stop. Finally I said, “The reason that your family is saying to you that you are a woman and confirming you in your delusion is because they are afraid that you will do something bad to yourself, not because they actually believe that you are a woman. They do not believe that you are a girl. They know that you are not. They are trying to humor you because they&#8217;re afraid of what will happen if they do not.”
This person got extremely emotional and rushed out of the room. It was a perfect YouTube clip, but the reason you&#8217;ve never seen that on YouTube is because I went to the organizers of the event and asked them to remove that from the tape of the event, because I knew that this person was going to be damaged by that tape. It would have hurt him.
Not only that, I then found friends of the person and asked this person to come to breakfast the next morning with me to make sure this person was okay.
That’s because when you merge the personal and the political in this way, it gets really ugly, really quickly.
Gavin Newsom&#8217;s press office targeting Musk over his child was truly ugly stuff.
Musk then tweeted back, “I assume you’re referring to my son, Xavier, who has a tragic mental illness caused by the evil woke mind virus you push on vulnerable children. I love Xavier very much and hope he recovers. My daughters are Azure, Exa (she goes by Y) and Arcadia, and they do indeed love me very much.”
The fact that Newsom&#8217;s office went that low is really disgusting, and shows how the Democrats are going to run headlong into their own radicalism on this issue.
Newsom seems like he&#8217;s trying to avoid the issue altogether. But if he is dragged back into discussing this issue, and if Democrats keep making the same moral litmus test as to whether boys can be girls, especially minors, then they&#8217;re going to be in for a world of hurt.

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In the latest display of California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s desperate attempts to lash out at conservative figures for publicity purposes, his press office stooped to attacking former Trump advisor Elon Musk by declaring his own child hates him.
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The nasty attack from Newsom came after he had said in an interview with Ezra Klein, “I want to see trans kids. I have a trans godson,” boasting, “There’s no governor that’s done more pro trans legislation than I have.”
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That clip went viral after the X site for the America PAC, which Musk founded, posted it.
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The Newsom Press Office official X account responded by writing, “Correct. We’re sorry your daughter hates you, Elon.”
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Correct. We’re sorry your daughter hates you, Elon. <a href="https://t.co/HeJIm5fJMS">https://t.co/HeJIm5fJMS</a>
&mdash; Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1999203789367095643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Musk has a son, Xavier, who identifies as a woman.
Musk fired back, “I assume you’re referring to my son, Xavier, who has a tragic mental illness caused by the evil woke mind virus you push on vulnerable children. I love Xavier very much and hope he recovers. My daughters are Azure, Exa (she goes by Y) and Arcadia, and they do indeed love me very much.”
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I assume you’re referring to my son, Xavier, who has a tragic mental illness caused by the evil woke mind virus you push on vulnerable children. I love Xavier very much and hope he recovers. 
My daughters are Azure, Exa (she goes by Y) and Arcadia, and they do indeed love me…
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1999379324768788663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In July 2024, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-says-he-vowed-to-destroy-the-woke-mind-virus-after-he-was-tricked-into-allowing-his-son-to-transition">told Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> that he was “tricked into” allowing his son Xavier to undergo gender procedures, saying his child was “killed” by the “woke mind virus.”
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Musk called “gender-affirming care,” the Left’s description of the procedures, “a terrible euphemism.”
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“It’s really child mutilation and sterilization,” Musk said. “It’s evil. You’re taking kids who are far below the age of consent. &#8230; It’s very possible for adults to manipulate children who are having an actual identity crisis into believing that they are the wrong gender.”
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“I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier. This was really before I had any understanding of what was going on, and we had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion. And I was told Xavier might commit suicide,” Musk recalled.
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“It’s incredibly evil,” Musk said. “And I agree with you that the people that are promoting this should go to prison. &#8230; I was tricked into doing this. It wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs. I lost my son, essentially. They call it ‘deadnaming’ for a reason. The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead, so my son, Xavier, is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”
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Newsom has made it abundantly clear how hypocritical he is on trans issues; speaking with the late Charlie Kirk last March, Newsom responded when asked about transgender-identifying athletes, “I think it’s an issue of fairness; I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair. &#8230; I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you. I revere sports. So, the issue of fairness is completely legit.”
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Yet last July, the Sacramento Bee <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article310155150.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com">pointed out</a>, “California will not ban transgender athletes from competing in K-12 school sports or change its anti-discrimination policies to exclude them, becoming the second state after Maine to defy the Trump administration over the issue.”
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Newsom’s press office mocked Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s order to eliminate any sports prizes awarded to transgender-identifying athletes and ban them, calling it “dramatic, fake, and completely divorced from reality.”
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X has surged in popularity after the European Union announced last week that it had fined the social media platform for violating transparency rules and other regulations.
Elon Musk, who purchased X in 2022, has celebrated X’s surging popularity and mocked the European Union’s attempts to punish the free speech platform. Musk has touted rankings that show X has become the most downloaded app across Europe since the EU announced its action against Musk’s platform.
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Now number 1 in every EU country! <a href="https://t.co/tQOpiPVRkw">https://t.co/tQOpiPVRkw</a>
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“X is seeing record-breaking downloads in many countries in Europe,” Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997710799440429292">posted</a> on Sunday.
“The European Union is not DEMOcracy–rule of the people–but rather BUREAUcracy–rule of the unelected bureaucrat!” Musk added in a <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997711558508695979">post</a> several minutes later.
The European Commission, the main governing body of the European Union, announced on Friday that it had <a href="https://x.com/EU_Commission/status/1996968219286904832">fined</a> X the equivalent of about $140 million for “non-compliance with transparency obligations under the [Digital Services Act].”
The commission <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934">said</a> that X’s “blue checkmark” stamp on accounts, which is given to those accounts that pay for verification, is deceptive. The commission also accused X of illegally blocking researchers and governments from accessing parts of its data.
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In a response from X’s head of product, Nikita Bier accused the commission of hypocrisy, exploiting a bug in X’s platform for advertisements to extend the reach of the commission’s video announcing its action against X. Bier said that X has since cut off the commission’s access to X’s Ad Composer tool for using it to deceive users.
“The irony of your announcement: You logged into your dormant ad account to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer — to post a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach,” Bier <a href="https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1997450541275005041">posted</a>. “As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it seems you believe that the rules should not apply to your account. Your ad account has been terminated.”
Bier’s response was reposted by Musk.
The commission’s action against Musk has riled top officials in the Trump administration, deepening a divide between the United States and Europe over regulation and speech.
“The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on [X], it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over,” <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1996974377003319667">said</a> Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage,” <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1996701953372704921">said</a> Vice President JD Vance a day before the fine was announced.

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SpaceX has informed investors and representatives of financial institutions that it plans to pursue an initial public offering in the second half of next year, the Information reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the discussions.
The rocket-maker, founded by Elon Musk, is considering a public listing of the entire company, including Starlink, its internet satellite service, according to the report.
Musk had said in 2020 that SpaceX planned to list Starlink several years in the future, once its revenue growth became smooth and predictable.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The news of the potential IPO follows a media report that said SpaceX is kicking off a secondary share sale that would value the rocket-maker at $800 billion, pitting it against OpenAI for the title of the most valuable private company.
SpaceX&#8217;s finance chief, Bret Johnsen, told investors about the sale in recent days, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The new potential valuation is double the $400 billion value it fetched in a recent secondary share sale.
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The $800 billion valuation would put SpaceX ahead of ChatGPT-parent OpenAI, which is valued at $500 billion as of October, making it the most valuable privately held company in the world, according to Crunchbase data.
Separately, Bloomberg News on Friday reported that SpaceX is preparing to sell insider shares that could include a per-share price of around $300, which would value the company at roughly $560 billion.
Several billionaires and private firms, including SpaceX and Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin, are fueling a new space race in the U.S., pouring money into rockets, satellites and lunar missions.
(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Alan Barona)

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