Merger catapults Musk past 800bn

Scholar power: 25.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Brian Jm Quinn	32%	7	25.4%

Formula for scholar power: 3 × author's field match × √author's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

70.0%

11.6 h

1

25.4%

Ranking score

0.073

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

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 John R. Hutchinson

4%

Scholar power: 4%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 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 Steve Keen

8%

Scholar power: 8.6%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Steve Keen	16%	29	8.6%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

64.0%

12.4 h

863

8.6%

Ranking score

0.175

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

by Nina Jankowicz Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky

0%

Scholar power: 0.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Nina Jankowicz	-	3	-
🎓 Stephan Lewandowsky	1%	88	0.9%
Total			0.9%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

46.0%

15.2 h

66

0.9%

Ranking score

0.011

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

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 David Rothschild

12%

Scholar power: 12.7%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 David Rothschild	8%	28	12.7%

Formula for scholar power: 3 × author's field match × √author's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

59.0%

22.5 h

41

12.7%

Ranking score

0.023

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

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 Michael D. McDonald, Anders Nilsson

9%

Scholar power: 9.5%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Michael D. McDonald	11%	22	5.2%
🎓 Anders Nilsson	9%	23	4.3%
Total			9.5%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

60.0%

22.8 h

220

9.5%

Ranking score

0.053

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

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

by Tim Stephens

7%

Scholar power: 7.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Tim Stephens	6%	17	7.4%

Formula for scholar power: 3 × author's field match × √author's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

59.0%

23.8 h

20

7.4%

Ranking score

0.014

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

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

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan

1%

Scholar power: 1.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Brendan Nyhan	2%	51	1.4%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

47.0%

25.7 h

36

1.4%

Ranking score

0.005

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

Josh Gerstein

@joshgerstein.bsky.social

JUST IN: Judge rejects Elon Musk's bid to dismiss SEC suit alleging that when he sought to take over Twitter (now X) he failed to disclose his stake as required. Judge Sparkle Sooknanan (Biden) turns down forced-speech and SEC appointment challenges. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov

February 3, 2026 at 8:51 PM

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele

4%

Scholar power: 4.5%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Kim L. Scheppele	8%	31	4.5%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

47.0%

26.0 h

635

4.5%

Ranking score

0.014

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

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 James F. McGrath

4%

Scholar power: 4%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 James F. McGrath	-	8	-

James F. McGrath (ReligionProf)

@religionprof.bsky.social

Paris Authorities Raid the Offices of Elon Musk’s X gizmodo.com/paris-author...

Paris Authorities Raid the Offices of Elon Musk’s X

Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino have also been summoned for questioning.

gizmodo.com

February 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM

Reposted by Anne Nevgi

1%

Scholar power: 1.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Anne Nevgi	2%	25	1.0%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

54.0%

26.6 h

1159

1.0%

Ranking score

0.019

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

by Paul Davies

32%

Scholar power: 32.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Paul Davies	34%	10	32.3%

Formula for scholar power: 3 × author's field match × √author's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

51.0%

26.6 h

4

32.3%

Ranking score

0.016

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

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

Die Zeit

SpaceX and xAI: Elon, the Storyteller

Campaign helper for right-wing populists? Bully against wokeness? No—Elon Musk demonstrates perhaps his greatest talent yet by merging his spaceflight and AI ventures.

Reposts 8 1d

Reposted by Brigid Laffan

2%

Scholar power: 2.1%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Brigid Laffan	4%	27	2.1%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

51.0%

27.3 h

2411

2.1%

Ranking score

0.028

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

The Guardian

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 Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1. 25tn valuation To Elon Musk’s fanclub, there is nothing to see apart from more evidence of the great man’s visionary genius. SpaceX , the rocket firm, is buying xAI , the artificial intelligence developer, and the combination of these two Musk-controlled entities is being valued at $1. 25tn (£910bn). Feel the positive vibes ahead of a stock market debut due in June ! The most valuable private company in history! The largest ever transaction! Or, as Musk described it , he is creating “the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free-speech platform”. Continue reading. . .

Reposts 19 1d

Le Figaro

Elon Musk's fortune now exceeds $800 billion thanks to the SpaceX and xAI merger

The businessman has become the first person in history to cross this threshold. He now leads the world's second-richest person, Larry Page, Google's cofounder, by $578 billion.

Reposts 0 1d

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

SpaceX and X.AI: Elon Musk's billion-dollar gambles

The world's richest man is bringing together his space company and his AI company. Once again, the impression is that he is mainly serving one thing: his own financial interests.

Reposts 1 1d

El Mundo

Elon Musk accuses Sánchez of being a 'tyrant' and a 'traitor' toward Spain for banning social networks for under-16s

The magnate responds to the statements by Spain's prime minister at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

Reposts 0 1d

Financial Times

The new rules of finance, courtesy of Elon Musk

Merger of SpaceX and xAI epitomises the way Big Tech has turned corporate world on its head

Reposts 2 1d

Reposted by Charles W. Smith

4%

Scholar power: 4.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Business 50%, Law 25%, Economics 25%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Charles W. Smith	9%	20	4.0%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

51.0%

28.6 h

735

4.0%

Ranking score

0.016

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

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

Add to Home Screen

Light up
your news

Merger catapults Musk past 800bn

SpaceX and xAI: Elon, the Storyteller

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

Elon Musk's fortune now exceeds $800 billion thanks to the SpaceX and xAI merger

SpaceX and X.AI: Elon Musk's billion-dollar gambles

Elon Musk accuses Sánchez of being a 'tyrant' and a 'traitor' toward Spain for banning social networks for under-16s

The new rules of finance, courtesy of Elon Musk

Add to Home Screen

Light upyour news

Merger catapults Musk past 800bn

Scholar power: 25.4%

Scholar power: 4%

Scholar power: 8.6%

Scholar power: 0.9%

Scholar power: 12.7%

Scholar power: 9.5%

Scholar power: 7.4%

Scholar power: 1.4%

Scholar power: 4.5%

Scholar power: 4%

Scholar power: 1.0%

Scholar power: 32.3%

SpaceX and xAI: Elon, the Storyteller

Scholar power: 2.1%

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

Elon Musk's fortune now exceeds $800 billion thanks to the SpaceX and xAI merger

SpaceX and X.AI: Elon Musk's billion-dollar gambles

Elon Musk accuses Sánchez of being a 'tyrant' and a 'traitor' toward Spain for banning social networks for under-16s

The new rules of finance, courtesy of Elon Musk

Scholar power: 4.0%

Sign in to Lightnews

Sign up to start reading

Connect Bluesky

Connect with Bluesky

Light up
your news