Elon Musk reveals why he launched his Tesla Roadster into space.
"I fully expected this flight to fail."
Musk was talking about Falcon Heavy's first flight.
Since he thought the rocket might fail, he didn't want to put something boring on top of it.
Instead, SpaceX launched his personal Tesla Roadster with Starman sitting in the driver's seat.
The car is now traveling in an orbit that takes it between Earth and Mars.
And according to Musk, it could remain up there for around 10 million years.
Imagine taking your everyday car and accidentally turning it into a piece of space history.
BREAKING: Elon Musk refused to let Ukraine use Starlink for attacks inside Russia. He prioritizes ending the war, not expanding it.
Zelensky himself confirmed the refusal, saying Trump informed him that Musk had rejected the request.
🚨 ELON MUSK ON STARLINK FOR YOUR PHONE:
“You should be able to have a Starlink account that works with your Starlink antenna at home with free Wi-Fi as well as on your phone.
We’re not going to put the other carriers out of business. They’re still going to be around because they own a lot of spectrum.
It will allow SpaceX to deliver high bandwidth connectivity directly from the satellites to the phones. You should be able to watch videos anywhere on your phone.”
🚨🇪🇺WHO ORDERED THE CENSORSHIP? X MAY BE ABOUT TO EXPOSE THE GOVERNMENTS BEHIND IT
For years, millions of people have suspected something was happening behind the curtain.
Posts restricted.
Content removed.
Accounts limited.
Political opinions branded “misinformation.”
Journalists, campaigners and ordinary citizens watching perfectly lawful posts remain online — yet sometimes wondering why their ability to reach an audience appeared to collapse.
And governments across Britain and Europe demanding ever greater powers over what appears online.
But there has always been one enormous problem:
THE PUBLIC COULDN’T SEE WHO WAS PULLING THE STRINGS.
That may be about to change.
Elon Musk has now said:
“Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible.”
If X's transparency measures expose government demands for censorship and identify the authorities and legal mechanisms involved, this could be extraordinarily significant.
Because suddenly the question isn't simply:
WAS SOMETHING CENSORED?
It becomes:
WHO ASKED FOR IT?
Which government?
Which regulator?
Which agency?
What content was targeted?
What justification was given?
And how extensive was it?
But there is another question that could prove even more important.
“FREEDOM OF SPEECH, NOT FREEDOM OF REACH.”
That is terminology X itself has used to describe its enforcement philosophy.
And the distinction matters.
A platform doesn't necessarily have to delete your words to dramatically reduce their impact.
A post can remain online while its visibility is restricted.
You can still speak.
You can still point to the post and say:
“Look — it hasn't been censored.”
But what if hardly anybody is allowed to hear you?
That raises a question I believe deserves an answer:
HAVE GOVERNMENTS OR REGULATORS EVER REQUESTED — DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY — THAT THE REACH OF LAWFUL CONTENT BE RESTRICTED?
And if they have:
WILL X NOW SHOW US?
Because transparency shouldn't merely tell us about posts governments wanted deleted.
We should know whether authorities sought other forms of intervention too.
Removal.
Restriction.
Visibility.
Reach.
And then comes perhaps the biggest question of all:
DOES THE TRAIL GO BACKWARDS?
If historical government requests eventually become accessible, imagine what journalists could investigate.
Creators who watched their reach suddenly collapse.
Journalists whose investigations struggled to reach their audiences.
Campaigners who believed their content was being suppressed.
People who were told controversial opinions constituted “misinformation.”
Could some eventually discover that government authorities had sought action against particular content?
WE DON'T YET KNOW.
And that distinction is important.
There is currently no basis for claiming that every unexplained fall in reach was caused by government intervention.
Algorithms change.
Platform policies change.
Enforcement happens for many different reasons.
But that's precisely why transparency matters.
LET US SEE THE EVIDENCE.
If governments acted lawfully and proportionately, the records should demonstrate that.
But if government departments, regulators or state agencies pressured platforms to restrict lawful political speech, dissent or inconvenient journalism, the public deserves to know that too.
And Britain and Europe could have some particularly serious questions to answer if such evidence emerges.
For years governments have demanded greater transparency from social-media companies.
Perhaps it's time citizens received the same transparency from their governments.
Tell us:
WHO MADE THE REQUEST?
WHAT CONTENT DID THEY TARGET?
DID THEY ASK FOR REMOVAL — OR RESTRICTION?
DID THEY SEEK TO AFFECT ITS REACH?
WHAT LEGAL AUTHORITY DID THEY USE?
AND HOW FAR BACK DO THE RECORDS GO?
Because in the digital age, freedom of expression isn't only about whether you are technically permitted to speak.
It is also about understanding who has the power to decide whether anybody hears you.
If X is genuinely about to shine a light into that system, then open it completely.
OPEN THE FILES.
SHOW US WHO ASKED.
SHOW US WHAT THEY WANTED.
AND LET THE PUBLIC JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. @elonmusk
🚨 Foreign Governments are NOT happy with Elon Musk open sourcing their censorship requirements
"Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible”
THIS IS A HUGE WIN FOR TRANSPARENCY 🔥
🔥 BREAKING: Elon Musk's America PAC is now OPENLY TARGETING Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (D) in the Michigan US Senate race, after the socialist said he HATES Mackinac Island
"Those who hate a place should not be elected to represent it." 💯
Elon has vowed to spend TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars in the midterms — and now, it looks like some of that could go toward helping elect Trump-endorsed MIKE ROGERS (R)
Thank you, @ElonMusk@America! Unite to defend the west! 🇺🇸
Elon Musk: “Mamdani is a charismatic swindler, I mean you got to hand it to him, he can light up a stage. But he has just been a swindler his entire life."
Thoughts?
🚨 ELON MUSK JUST FIRED THIS STRAIGHT TO HIS 241 MILLION FOLLOWERS
“If a state won’t share data on criminal use of SNAP benefits, it won’t get a dollar of federal SNAP administrative funding.”
THIS IS HOW YOU END THE FRAUD.
I FIRMLY SUPPORT CUTTING EVERY FEDERAL DOLLAR FROM STATES THAT PROTECT SNAP CRIMINALS
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Tesla's Model 3 and Y have been ranked the MOST AMERICAN-MADE vehicles of 2026, beating out any other car brand and car model
This is AWESOME!
Elon Musk loves America and employs a MASSIVE number of Americans with his companies.
That's what a patriot does 🇺🇸
🚨 NOW: Hasan Piker is publicly threatening to SUE people who share his bombshell clips where he admits to things like wanting to destroy the white race and America
Elon Musk has REPEATEDLY amplified Hasan’s own words. Let’s see him try to sue Elon, he’d be DECIMATED instantly! 🔥
Keep exposing it all, this is Democrats’ GOLDEN BOY
We will keep exposing the traitor and there’s nothing he can do to stop it.
🚨 ELON MUSK:
“You can tell which side is the good side and which side is the bad side by which side wishes to restrict freedom of speech.
In pushing for censorship, it makes it very clear that the left is the side that is against freedom.”
🚨 ELON MUSK:
“If I died knowing that I did what was right, or did my best to do what was right, and even if in the history books they said I did wrong, I would still feel okay about that.
I care about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it.”