Musk isn’t afraid to use his technologies to advance his politics. We’ve seen how his tweaks to X have made it more Nazi-friendly, and how his chatbot will start talking about “white genocide.” We’ve seen Musk enable a war effort, and we’ve seen him deny that aid when it suited him to do so. This has all happened while Starlink is in its relative... See more

In the first weeks and months of 2025, his friends at the Trump State Department tried to strong-arm nations like Gambia into buying Starlink. The Trump White House hit tiny Lesotho with crushing 50 percent tariffs; the country then quickly licensed Starlink as a way of demonstrating “goodwill and intent to welcome US businesses,” according to a... See more