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Tesla shareholder asks judge to keep company in Delaware

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington. Tech billionaire Elon Musk accused Australia of censorship after an Australian judge ruled that his social media platform X must block users worldwide from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Musk lashes out at Australian demand to erase violent footage

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A booth is ready for a voter, Feb. 24, 2020, at City Hall in Cambridge, Mass., on the first morning of early voting in the state. The U.S. is warning other democracies that Russia appears to be opening up a new front in its covert campaign against democracy — sowing doubts about the reliability of elections in general. Encouraged by its success amplifying doubts about election procedures like mail balloting used in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Russian intelligence is trying to do the same in several other countries, according to U.S. intelligence. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Elon Musk’s X bans post about illegal immigrant voting, calls it hate speech

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Tesla sign is seen at Tesla in Buena Park, Calif. on Sunday Dec. 3, 2023. Tesla is recalling more than 3,000 of its 2024 Cybertrucks because of the possibility that a pedal can get stuck and cause the vehicle to accelerate unintentionally, increasing the risk of a crash. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Tesla cuts U.S. prices for 3 of its electric vehicle models after a difficult week

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Elon Musk arrives at the 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP file)

U.S. panel releases sealed Brazil court orders to Musk’s X, shedding light on account suspensions

By Julia Carneiro - Associated Press

Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars after a visit in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, on March 13, 2024. Elon Musk will ask Tesla shareholders to reinstate the compensation package that was rejected by a judge in Delaware this year and to move the electric carmaker’s corporate home from Delaware to Texas. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) **FILE**

Musk’s Tesla spends $200,000 on advertising on his X

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars after a visit in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, on March 13, 2024. Elon Musk will ask Tesla shareholders to reinstate the compensation package that was rejected by a judge in Delaware this year and to move the electric carmaker’s corporate home from Delaware to Texas. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) **FILE**

Tesla puts Musk’s massive pay package to a vote again

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

New X users will need to pay to post, Musk says

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone in Sydney, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Australia's online safety watchdog has fined X, formerly known as Twitter, $385,000 for failing to explain how it tackles child sexual exploitation on the social media platform. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

X limits Twitter mentions on mobile app

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claps hands at the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Musk will meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this month to discuss plans for a possible Tesla factory in the country. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Musk-Modi meeting could mean Tesla expansion into India

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars after a visit in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Power has been restored to electric car manufacturer Tesla's factory near Berlin about a week after an outage believed to have been caused by arson, a network operator says. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Musk suggests his X posts ‘may have done more to financially impair the company than to help it’

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone in Sydney, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Australia's online safety watchdog has fined X, formerly known as Twitter, $385,000 for failing to explain how it tackles child sexual exploitation on the social media platform. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Musk defies Brazilian court order to de-platform right-wing activists

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Musk’s X social media company appoints 2 safety chiefs

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Computer monitors and a laptop display the X, formerly known as Twitter, sign-in page, July 24, 2023, in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Musk offers free X Premium subscriptions to popular accounts

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Characters removed from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building are piled on a street in San Francisco on July 24, 2023. A little more than a year ago, Elon Musk walked into Twitter's San Francisco headquarters, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media platform into what's now known as X. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

X average daily users dropped nearly 25% since Musk takeover

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Cybertruck at Tesla's design studio on Nov. 21, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif. The windows were broken during a demonstration intended to show the strength of the glass. Musk is expected to give an update on manufacturing problems with the long-awaited Cybertruck at an event Thursday marking the first deliveries of the futuristic, angular pickup truck. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Musk tries to calm nerves about Cybertruck’s paneling issue

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk looks on, during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Lancaster House in London, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Former CNN reporter Don Lemon mixed it up with Musk in an interview Lemon posted on Musk's X social network Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)

4 things to know from Elon Musk’s interview with Don Lemon

By David Hamilton - Associated Press

Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars after a visit in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Power has been restored to electric car manufacturer Tesla's factory near Berlin about a week after an outage believed to have been caused by arson, a network operator says. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

SEC accuses Musk of stalling investigation

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, 4th from right, arrives at the Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Power has been restored to electric car manufacturer Tesla's factory near Berlin about a week after an outage believed to have been caused by arson, a network operator says. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Musk visits German Tesla plant as production resumes after eco terror attack

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk, CEO of X, the company formerly known as Twitter, departs from a closed-door gathering of leading tech CEOs to discuss the priorities and risks surrounding artificial intelligence and how it should be regulated, at Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Musk says he won’t donate to Biden or Trump

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times