As flames engulf swaths of Los Angeles, Elon Musk is wielding X to stoke partisan outrage and conspiracy theories about the disaster.

Billionaire CEO Elon Musk’s baby mama Grimes shared a grim warning as she evacuated Los Angeles due to the ongoing wildfires. In a post on X, the Canadian-born pop star declared, “The vibe is rather Biblical out here,

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk's X, doing away with fact-checkers and other content moderation in favor of community notes and freer speech.

Instead of mourning the dead and the devastating destruction that has befallen the city of Los Angeles due to raging wildfires, X owner Elon Musk has taken to his far-right hate speech incubator to blame the fires on diversity,

The publicity was a potential boon for AfD, which has been frozen out of mainstream politics, in part, because its leaders have downplayed Nazi atrocities.

Elon the musk turtle has been rehomed by the RSPCA after a record 1,579 days. Staff at the charity's Brighton Reptile Rescue centre first began to care for the turtle after it was abandoned during lockdown in September 2020.

Elon Musk walked back his previous claim that he could cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, saying Wednesday that half that amount would be “an epic outcome.”

UK officials are monitoring social media posts by Elon Musk and others as a possible security risk. The monitoring is being carried out by a team in the Home Office's Homeland Security group, which is responsible for reducing national security risks and, according to a government website, "focuses on the highest harm risks to the homeland".

The cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted in AI training,” Musk said. “That happened basically last year.”