Analysis
Climate policy
As EV sales slump Elon Musk comes up Trumps
At the risk of turning off the fans who jumped first for EVs, Elon Musk has dug in with the world’s most prominent climate sceptic: Donald Trump.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Defending our democracy: How a cranky uncle, Swedish inspo and ‘pre-bunking’ help out
Our home-grown election system is the envy of the Western world. Will it be enough to inoculate us from AI, fake news and other threats to our way of life?
- by Nick Bryant
Opinion
Elon Musk
The far right is the only place left for Elon Musk’s X-rated ego
Many are wondering how the poster boy for futurism ended up sounding like a conspiracy-theory-spouting uncle. But what if we’re all missing the point?
- by Joan Westenberg
Musk’s troubles in Brazil grow as Starlink threatened
“The Brazilian judiciary may have given an important signal that the world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s far-right ideology just because he is rich,” Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
- by Daniel Carvalho
Ward on wrong track on trains blame game
South Coast commuters have been seeing the now five-year-delayed intercity trains run empty, on test, for many months. They are a ghost fleet.
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Social media
Judge shuts down Musk’s X in Brazil
The move is the latest chapter in an ongoing feud between Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Elon Musk.
- by Gabriela Sá Pessoa and Mauricio Savarese
Opinion
Censorship
Elon Musk saying civil war is inevitable is not inciting violence. Here’s why
Beware the online-harm brigade, or we’ll have police on our doorsteps as fast as we can say boo online.
- by Josh Szeps
Musk’s Twitter deal deemed the ‘worst in Wall Street since financial crisis’
Seven lenders including Barclays and Morgan Stanley provided $US13 billion ($19.3 billion) in financing for the billionaire’s Twitter takeover. They’re still sitting on the debt two years later.
- by James Titcomb
Trump, Elon Musk interview as it happened: Former US president attacks Kamala Harris, immigrants in talk with X owner
Former US president Donald Trump will be interviewed by billionaire and X owner Elon Musk.
- by Olivia Ireland
Opinion
US Votes 2024
In a deepfake election, America is going to the trolls not the polls
Online corporations largely have given up their pretence at trying to impose any kind of civility on their platforms.
- by Peter Hartcher
Gold for going viral: Who is winning the internet Olympics?
It’s a photo finish between South Korea’s cyberpunk, the Turkish shooter with his hand in his pocket, and a well-endowed pole vaulter.
- by Thomas Mitchell
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