Merger catapults Musk past 800bn

Scholar power: 8.6%

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🎓 Steve Keen	16%	29	8.6%

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by Brian Jm Quinn

25%

Scholar power: 25.4%

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Brian JM Quinn

@bjmquinn.bsky.social

Musk may be taking SpaceX’s minority stockholder for a ride, but thank goodness neither Nevada nor Texas corporate law give them any opportunity to protect themselves…

www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

Elon Musk is taking SpaceX’s minority shareholders for a ride | Nils Pratley

Merger with loss-making xAI looks to some investors more like a bailout than a rocket trip to the future

www.theguardian.com

February 4, 2026 at 10:56 AM

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald, Anders Nilsson

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Scholar power: 9.5%

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🎓 Michael D. McDonald	11%	22	5.2%
🎓 Anders Nilsson	9%	23	4.3%
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makena kelly

@makenakelly.bsky.social

NEW: Elon Musk's X is awarding Nick Shirley—the creator who boosted the fraud allegations that led to ICE's Minneapolis surge—$100,000 for his "coverage.
x.com/XCreators/st...

February 3, 2026 at 11:43 PM

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Scholar power: 20.6%

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Erick Fernandez

@erickfernandez.bsky.social

“The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.”

Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor

The raid, involving cyber-crime officers, represents a dramatic escalation of an investigation that began in January 2025.

www.bbc.com

February 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM

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🎓 Brigid Laffan	4%	27	2.1%

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by David Rothschild

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Scholar power: 12.7%

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David Rothschild

@davmicrot.bsky.social

SpaceX (which “bought” X and XAI yesterday) owns & operates the most prolific child-porn deepfake production & distribution platform in the world, very reasonable for countries to worry about that.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

France getting serious with Musk.

Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk’s X – Europe live

The raid is linked to a year-long investigation into alleged abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X

www.theguardian.com

February 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM

Reposted by John R. Hutchinson

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🎓 John R. Hutchinson	-	64	-

Tom Joscelyn

@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:

French Foreign Ministry responds to Musk

February 4, 2026 at 10:33 AM

Reposted by Anne Nevgi

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol

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🎓 Richard S.J. Tol	9%	107	9.3%

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Steve Herman

@newsguy.bsky.social

Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk's X as part of an ongoing investigation of algorithm manipulation and illicit data extraction that has expanded into alleged complicity in spreading child sex abuse materials and sexualizing deepfakes. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit raids X’s French office

The cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office on Tuesday launched a search of the French offices of social media platform X. The raid was connected to an ongoing investigation launched in January…

www.france24.com

February 3, 2026 at 12:12 PM

Reposted by Charles W. Smith

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🎓 Charles W. Smith	9%	20	4.0%

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Senator Bernie Sanders

@sanders.senate.gov

When we talk about authoritarianism, it’s not just Donald Trump.

Musk owns X
Bezos owns Twitch
Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook
Larry Ellison controls TikTok

Billionaires increasingly control what we see, hear and read.

February 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM

by Paul Davies

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Scholar power: 32.3%

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🎓 Paul Davies	34%	10	32.3%

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Paul J Davies

@pauljdavies.bsky.social

One* of the head scratchers here is Meta makes >13 times the revenue of SpaceX and yet it worth just 40% more? I’ll astounded if this thing IPOs anywhere near that anytime soon.

*there are a lot of confusing things in this whole … thing.

Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d

SpaceX is the anti-Google! Lol at @matt-levine.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

If you had told me in 2016 "my company will build rockets and send them to Mars
in order to generate free cash flow to subsidize a capital-intensive money-losing website that will use machine learning algorithms to answer people's questions," I would have been like: No no no, the other way. You subsidize the space exploration with money from the website. The websiteis cheap and lucrative and scalable; the space explorationis the expensive bit with uncertain commercial prospects.

February 3, 2026 at 7:56 PM

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald

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🎓 Michael D. McDonald	11%	22	5.2%

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

Per BBC, “Police specialising in combating cyber-crime, assisted by Europol, have raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France.”

Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor

The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.

www.bbc.com

February 3, 2026 at 11:40 AM

by Tim Stephens

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🎓 Tim Stephens	6%	17	7.4%

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Tim Stephens

@proftimstephens.bsky.social

“Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

Prosecutors’ announcement comes amid a hardening of European attitudes to social media firms

www.theguardian.com

February 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM

by Timothy D. McBride

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Scholar power: 10.1%

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🎓 Timothy D. McBride	7%	23	10.1%

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

Paris prosecutors raided X offices and summoned Musk as global crackdown on Grok intensifies www.axios.com/2026/02/03/m...

Paris prosecutors raided X offices and summoned Musk as global crackdown on Grok intensifies

UK regulators also opened formal investigations.

www.axios.com

February 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele

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🎓 Kim L. Scheppele	8%	31	4.5%

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Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

French police have raided the Paris offices of X and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of a cybercrime investigation into artificial intelligence-generated pornographic deepfakes and Holocaust denial. www.ms.now/news/french-...

French police raid X offices and summon Musk in probe involving sexual deepfakes

Grok, the social media platform's AI chatbot, has sparked global outrage for generating a slew of sexually explicit images and Holocaust denial statements.

www.ms.now

February 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM

by Nina Jankowicz Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky

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Nina Jankowicz

@ninajankowicz.com

As news of investigations into X break and a certain tech mogul has temper tantrums, remember that Musk lashing out at global internet regulators is nothing new.

open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

Dispatch from Down Under: Keeping Australians Safe Online

Inside Australia’s pioneering efforts to hold tech companies accountable—and the campaign of conspiracies that followed.

open.substack.com

February 4, 2026 at 7:21 AM

by Hugh Pemberton

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Hugh Pemberton

@hugh-pemberton.bsky.social

Episode #95 in the blockbuster series "The Long Con".

How Elon Musk used SpaceX to rescue xAI and build a $1.25tn colossus - www.ft.com/content/9d2b... via @FT

How Elon Musk used SpaceX to rescue xAI and build a $1.25tn colossus

Billionaire folds rocket maker into a lossmaking AI start-up, betting scale and control can beat rivals to blockbuster IPO

www.ft.com

February 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Nathan P. Kalmoe

5%

Scholar power: 5.3%

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🎓 Kim L. Scheppele	8%	31	4.5%
🎓 Nathan P. Kalmoe	2%	17	0.8%
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Jacob Öberg

@profjacob.bsky.social

🚨🚨BREAKING: French authorities raided Elon Musk’s social media platform #X’s French offices today as part of a criminal investigation into its #Grok AI chatbot, the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement on X. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/poli...