The owner of tesla and majority shareholder of the social network of microblogging X (Twitter), Elon Musk, revealed that he avoided a Ukraine attack to one russian base last year when rejecting a ukrainian order to activate access to Internet in it Black Sea.
The businessman received a request for coverage in the area of the Russian fleet base in the Black Sea, near the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014. “There was an emergency request from the (Ukrainian) government authorities to activate Satarlink to Sevastopol,” he noted.
“The obvious intention was sink most of the Russian fleet. “If he had accepted the request, SpaceX would have been explicitly complicit in a major act of war and an escalation of the conflict,” he added in relation to his actions and the implication that SpaceX, one of the most important aerospace companies in the world, had.
The statements are part of an extract from a biography of him by The Washington Postby the journalist Walter Isaacson.
As the author of the book explains, Musk “secretly told his engineers to disable coverage within a 100-kilometer radius of the Crimean coast.”. “When the Ukrainian drones approached the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, they lost connection and sank without causing damage.”
However, the majority shareholder He denied these statements through his official Twitter account: “The Starlink regions mentioned were not activated. SpaceX It didn’t deactivate anything.”
Elon Musk’s changes to Twitter allowed Russia to expand the reach of its propaganda
Since Elon Musk he took care of Twitterand then convert it to X, Many things on the platform changed. These transformations, and especially in the area of securitythey allowed grow the reach of Russian propagandaaccording to a study by the European Commission.
“A preliminary analysis suggests that the reach and influence of Kremlin-funded accounts has grown in the first half of 2020,” says the study by the non-profit analysis group Reset, adding: “This was due in particular to the dismantling of the safety standards of Twitter”.
Before Musk, Twitter had a policy of labeling and narrowing the reach of accounts funded by the Kremlin, or any state, with the idea of improving transparency and minimizing the reach of propaganda. “We will stop amplifying state-funded accounts through our recommendation system,” Twitter posted in 2020, but, as Business Insider reported, Musk eliminated this policy in April of this year.
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