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According to Forbes and Bloomberg, on Dec. 14, 2022, Tesla and Twitter owner Elon Musk lost the title of the world’s wealthiest person to France’s Bernard Arnault. As the CEO of the luxury group LVMH, Arnault oversees some 70 fashion and cosmetic brands and is worth $187.3 billion (£151.1 billion). According to Forbes, Musk’s real-time net worth is $176.8 billion (£142.6 billion).

In a deal valued at $44 billion, Twitter announced on Apr. 25, 2022, that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Elon Musk. The transaction would result in Twitter becoming a privately owned company.

Did Musk drop out of the Twitter deal?

On May 13, 2022, Elon Musk tweeted, “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts represent less than 5% of users.” On July  8, he said in a letter to Twitter that the company’s “misrepresentation of the number of spam accounts” might be a “material adverse effect (MAE)” that would allow him to walk away under the terms of the deal contract.

Was that the end of it?

Twitter filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery against Musk on July 12, 2022, trying to force Musk to complete the takeover. Ahead of the Delaware court face-off on Oct. 17, Musk tweeted on Oct. 4, 2022, that buying Twitter would speed up his ambition to create an “everything app” called X and proposed to proceed with his original $44 billion bid to take Twitter, which he eventually did.

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter on Oct. 28, 2022, led to a 500% increase in the use of the N-word to demean Black people on the platform within just 12 hours, according to the National Contagion Research Institute, a disinformation tracking agency. Users were encouraged to amplify derogatory slurs on Twitter in several posts on the 4chan fringe message board website.

Is Trump returning to Twitter?

As of Nov. 2, 2022, Elon Musk announced Twitter would only allow people banned from its site to return once it sets up procedures on how to do so. That includes the former President, despite a fake meme stating otherwise.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp makes medical devices. It’s developing a brain implant that will allow people to walk again and cure neurological diseases. According to documents reviewed by Reuters and published on Dec. 5, 2022, Neuralink is under federal investigation for possible animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that animal testing is being rushed, resulting in needless suffering and death.

SpaceX has launched more than 1,700 low-orbiting “Starlink” satellites by the end of 2021. Josef Aschbacher, head of the European Space Agency, called for coordinated action from the EU and other countries to ensure that SpaceX’s constellation did not prevent other countries or companies from launching their satellites. SpaceX is racing against competitors to build a satellite network big enough to cover the whole globe, with permission from US authorities to launch 12,000 satellites. The company eventually plans to have a constellation of 42,000 satellites orbiting the planet.

On March 14, 2022, Elon Musk’s Starlink app became the most downloaded app from the Apple App Store in Ukraine, and it remained in the top spot in the days after, according to Sensor Tower, which tracks downloads. Starlink enables video calls, online gaming, streaming, and other high-data-rate activities thru Musk’s SpaceX satellites. The analytics firm said Starlink had reached 98,000 installs across Ukraine’s App Store and Google Play combined. Users can expect to see download speeds between 100 megabytes and 200 megabytes a second.

Tesla became the sixth company in US history worth $1 trillion on Oct. 25, 2021. It’s also the second-fastest to achieve that milestone after Facebook. The newly-named Meta Platforms first passed the $1 trillion barrier on June 28, 2021.

Will Elon Musk end world hunger?

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk posted on Twitter on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, “If WFP (UN World Food Programme) can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6 billion will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.” That sum would equate to roughly 2% of Musk’s net wealth.

What did the World Food Programme ask from Musk?

Musk’s tweet came after WFP director David Beasley challenged the world’s two richest men, Jeff Bezos and Musk, to “step up now, on a one-time basis” to help solve world hunger in an interview with CNN. Beasley replied to Musk’s post on Twitter, saying, “Your team can review and work with us to be confident of such. $6 billion will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability and mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation.”

By May 4, 2022, 758 Tesla owners have complained to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that their cars have suddenly stopped on roadways for no apparent reason. According to the agency’s website, many feared a rear-end crash on a freeway.

Which Tesla models are affected?

The investigation covers phantom braking in an estimated 416,000 Tesla Models 3 and Y vehicles from the 2021 and 2022 model years. In February, the agency said it had no reports of crashes or injuries.

Tesla raised prices for all its car models in the United States on June 16, 2022, as the costs of raw materials such as aluminum and lithium surged due to an industry-wide shortage. The Tesla Model “Y long-range” price increased to $65,990 from $62,990. It’s the fourth price increase since Jan. 2022 for some Tesla models.

Virgin Galactic told the Wall Street Journal Elon Musk had bought a ticket for his own space ride with Richard Branson’s space-tourism company. It is unclear how far up the waiting list Musk is for a seat. In a preflight interview by London’s Sunday Times, Branson said: “Elon’s a friend, and maybe I’ll travel on one of his ships one day.” Sunday morning, July 11, 2021, Branson tweeted a photo of himself and Musk: “Great to start the morning with a friend.”

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk told viewers of the US comedy sketch series Saturday Night Live (SNL) on May 8, 2021, he was “the first person with Asperger’s” to host the show. It is probably the first time Musk has spoken about his condition.

What’s Asperger syndrome?

Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger’s, is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, nonverbal communication, and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.

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Time magazine named Tesla CEO Elon Musk its Person of the Year for 2021. Musk, the founder and CEO of the space exploration company SpaceX, passed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world’s wealthiest person in 2021.

Elon Musk and his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, had twins in 2004, followed by triplets in 2006, before divorcing in 2008. They officially share custody of their children. Musk reportedly had another set of twins in November 2021, with Shivon Zilis, a director at one of his companies, according to court documents published on July 6, 2022. The world’s wealthiest person also has two children with Claire Boucher, better known as the musician Grimes.

Why was Musk’s child in the news in 2022?

One of Musk’s twins, the former Xavier Alexander Musk, having just turned 18, has filed a request to change her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson. Along with her new gender identity, she explained, “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” according to court documents available online through PlainSite.org.

Following Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the social platform made a single-sentence update to its policies: “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter will no longer enforce the COVID-19 misleading information policy.”

Elon Musk suggested UN-supervised reelections in the regions that Moscow has falsely annexed after what it called referendums, that Crimea, which Moscow seized in 2014, be formally recognized as Russia, and that Ukraine remains neutral. Ukraine’s outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, tweeted “F*** off is my very diplomatic reply to you @elonmusk.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, on the other hand, said, “It is a positive thing that somebody like Elon Musk is trying to find a peaceful way out of this situation.”