Elon Musk
Elon Musk is named in 182 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 2017 to 2026.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-12 | Trump Turns White House Lawn into Tesla Showroom, Purchases Model S to Support Musk Donald Trump · Elon Musk · White House Staff | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | FAA Reviews Verizon Contract Amid Starlink Competition Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Verizon Communications · SpaceX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Judge Cooper rules DOGE subject to FOIA due to "unusual secrecy" and "substantial authority" Judge Christopher Cooper · Department of Government Efficiency · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Musk Pledges $100M to Trump Political Operation Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-09 | Chinese Investors Secretly Invest Millions in Elon Musk's Private Companies Elon Musk · Chinese Investors · SpaceX | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | Elon Musk's Starlink Expands Rapidly in Federal Government Infrastructure Elon Musk · SpaceX · Starlink · Donald Trump · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | FCC Grants Starlink Controversial Direct-to-Cell Service Approval at Higher Power Levels Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Jay Schwarz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | SpaceX Confirms Starlink Loan Agreement with FAA for Infrastructure Testing Elon Musk · SpaceX · Federal Aviation Administration · L3Harris Technologies · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-06 | Cabinet Meeting Explodes as Rubio and Duffy Clash with Musk Over DOGE Cuts Elon Musk · Marco Rubio · Sean Duffy · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-06 | Federal layoffs surge to 62,530 in first two months as DOGE cuts dominate Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Federal Agencies · Challenger Gray & Christmas | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-05 | Musk's America PAC launches $1 million TV ad buy touting Trump's first 6 weeks in office Donald Trump · Elon Musk · America PAC | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-03 | DOGE Demands $4 Million from OPM for Workforce Reduction Planning Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Commerce Department changes broadband policies benefiting Starlink up to $20B Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Elon Musk · Starlink | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | SEC offers $50,000 buyouts to staff investigating Elon Musk Securities and Exchange Commission · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | Musk's DOGE leads systematic CFPB shutdown, raising regulatory conflict concerns Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Linda Yaccarino · Russell Vought · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-25 | FAA approves 4,000 Starlink terminals, considers canceling $2.4B Verizon contract Federal Aviation Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX/Starlink · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-25 | Trump Administration Introduces Expansive Special Government Employee Status for Private Sector Leaders Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | DOJ drops immigration discrimination case against SpaceX Department of Justice · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | X Threatens Interpublic Group with Potential Government Interference Over Ad Spending Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Linda Yaccarino · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-19 | SpaceX Engineers Onboarded to FAA During Mass Staff Firings Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Sean Duffy · Brady Glantz · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Administration Terminates Critical Privacy Officials at OPM, Blocking Public Information Access Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump systematically fires federal officials investigating Elon Musk's companies Donald Trump · Elon Musk · FDA officials · EEOC officials · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | Acting NASA Chief Confirms DOGE Audit of Space Agency Spending Elon Musk · Janet Petro · Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | How the Trumps Turned Social Media Platform Litigation into a Profitable Strategy Donald Trump · Alphabet Inc. · Google · YouTube · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-12 | State Department Plans $400 Million Purchase of Tesla Cybertrucks State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Systematically Halts Regulatory Investigations into Musk's Business Empire Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Federal Regulatory Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Signs Executive Order for Large-Scale Federal Workforce Cuts Under DOGE Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Musk Recruits Engineers for Department of Government Efficiency via Targeted Online Networks Elon Musk · Anthony Jansco · Steve Davis · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX Troy Meink · Elon Musk · SpaceX · National Reconnaissance Office · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Robert Storch · Phyllis Fong · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Musk Proposes Rapid FAA Air Traffic Control System Safety Upgrades Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Sean Duffy · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | 25-Year-Old Musk Aide Given Write Access to $6 Trillion Treasury Payment System Marko Elez · Elon Musk · Scott Bessent · David Lebryk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Musk companies received $38 billion in government support over 20 years Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla · Starlink · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Russian Oligarch Held SpaceX Stake While Under U.S. Sanctions Suleiman Kerimov · SpaceX · Elon Musk · Heritage Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | U.S. Global Change Research Program dismantled with staff removed U.S. Global Change Research Program · White House · Russ Vought · David Legates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Amazon Raises Ad Spending on Elon Musk's X Platform Jeff Bezos · Elon Musk · Andy Jassy · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | OPM Sends "Fork in the Road" Email Offering 2 Million Federal Employees Deferred Resignation Office of Personnel Management · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · DOGE · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Ed Coristine, 19, given access to critical government systems despite cybercrime links Edward Coristine · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · State Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump cabinet worth $450 billion, most concentrated wealth in US history Trump cabinet · Elon Musk · Howard Lutnick · Warren Stephens | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs 37 executive orders on first day, implementing Project 2025 priorities Donald Trump · Elon Musk · White House · United Nations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Grok AI Demonstrates Major Safety and Misinformation Vulnerabilities Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Watchdog Groups · SaferAI · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-13 | Bannon Vows to Destroy 'Truly Evil' Elon Musk, Declares MAGA Civil War Steve Bannon · Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-24 | H-1B Civil War Peaks - Musk vs Bannon/Loomer on Immigration Policy Elon Musk · Steve Bannon · Laura Loomer · Vivek Ramaswamy | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | PayPal Mafia Member David Sacks Named White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-04 | Joe Rogan Endorses Trump on Election Eve, Marking Major Podcast Influence on Political Discourse Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Kamala Harris · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-25 | Joe Rogan Gives Trump Unchallenged 3-Hour Platform 11 Days Before Election, Interview Reaches 50M+ Views and Cited as 'Deciding Factor' by Voters Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · JD Vance | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-01 | Musk Claims Billionaires "Terrified" of Epstein List on Tucker Carlson Show Elon Musk · Tucker Carlson | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-01 | Musk Coordinates Political Operations Through America PAC and X Platform Information Warfare Elon Musk · Donald Trump · America PAC · Twitter | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-15 | Grok AI Implements Enhanced Safety Protocols After Regulatory Pressure Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Review Board · U.S. AI Safety Institute | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-16 | xAI Faces Major Criticism Over Grok AI Safety Failures Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-13 | X Algorithm Modified to Amplify Musk and Right-Wing Content Following Trump Endorsement Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Timothy Graham · Mark Andrejevic · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-30 | EU Regulators Launch Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI Data Privacy Practices Elon Musk · xAI · Irish Data Protection Commission · European Data Protection Board · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-15 | xAI Implements Controversial AI Safety Framework Amid Industry Scrutiny Elon Musk · xAI · The Midas Project · AI Safety Experts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | House Oversight Launches Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI's Safety and Government Deployment Robert Garcia · Stephen Lynch · Elon Musk · xAI · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | Regulatory Bodies Begin Investigating Grok AI Safety Practices Elon Musk · xAI · Senator Elizabeth Warren · Rep. Don Bacon · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-15 | xAI Announces Enhanced Safety Protocols for Grok Chatbot at AI Seoul Summit Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Consultants · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-22 | Irish Data Protection Commission Launches Grok AI Regulatory Investigation Elon Musk · Irish Data Protection Commission · X Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-20 | Musk's xAI Grok Faces Mounting Safety Scrutiny, Secures $200M Pentagon Contract Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-22 | AI Regulatory Bodies Begin Scrutiny of xAI's Grok Elon Musk · xAI · Federal Trade Commission · Irish Data Protection Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | AI Ethics Study Highlights Systemic Bias and Misinformation Risks in Grok AI Stanford HAI Researchers · Elon Musk · xAI Team · AI Ethics Researchers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | First Major Grok AI Safety Failure Documented Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | xAI Grok AI Faces Initial Government Safety Scrutiny Elon Musk · Tech Regulators · xAI · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-11 | Ukrainian intelligence confirms systemic Russian military use of Starlink Russian military · Ukrainian intelligence · Elon Musk · SpaceX/Starlink | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-01 | Russian Military Systematically Acquires and Uses Starlink Terminals in Ukraine Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin · Russian military · Starlink · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-15 | Independent AI Safety Researchers Publish Initial Grok AI Safety Assessment xAI · Independent AI Safety Researchers · Elon Musk · Samuel Marks · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | AI Safety Experts Reveal Grok Vulnerability Patterns AI Safety Researchers · David Rozado · xAI · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | Security Experts Raise Alarms About Grok AI's Lack of Safety Guardrails Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Kristian Hammond · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-04 | xAI Launches Grok with Minimal Safety Guardrails Elon Musk · xAI · Anthropic | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-29 | X reverses 2019 ban, allows U.S. political ads; verified accounts prioritized in recommendations X/Twitter · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-23 | Twitter Transformed to X with Systematic Content Moderation Rollback and Political Weaponization Elon Musk · Twitter/X Platform · Center for Countering Digital Hate · Eddie Perez · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-26 | Unconfirmed Report of Trump, Musk, and MBS Meeting Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Mohammed bin Salman | reported | |
| 2023-05-09 | Tucker Carlson Announces Move to Twitter/X, Forgoes $25 Million to Break Non-Compete Tucker Carlson · Elon Musk · Twitter/X · Fox News · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-27 | X prioritizes verified accounts for recommendations and polls Elon Musk · X/Twitter | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-03 | X expands permitted political advertising in the U.S. X/Twitter · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | SpaceX Wins $1.8 Billion Classified NRO Contract for Hundreds of Spy Satellites SpaceX · Elon Musk · National Reconnaissance Office · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-09 | Twitter Files Release Exposes Systematic Government-Social Media Coordination Infrastructure for Information Control and Democratic Manipulation Elon Musk · Twitter/X Corporation · Matt Taibbi · Bari Weiss · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-27 | Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition with Substantial Saudi and Qatari Investment Elon Musk · Prince Alwaleed bin Talal · Kingdom Holding Company · Qatar Investment Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-01 | Elon Musk begins regular contact with Vladimir Putin Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | Tesla Begins Purchasing Russian Aluminum from Rusal Tesla · Elon Musk · Oleg Deripaska · Rusal | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Reports: Sanctioned oligarch Suleiman Kerimov held ~1% SpaceX stake via Heritage Trust Suleyman Kerimov (Russian Federation Council member) · SpaceX · Elon Musk · Heritage Trust · +3 | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Donald Trump
87× shared
Trump Administration
43× shared
Department of Government Efficiency
36× shared
xAI
23× shared
SpaceX
20× shared
Office of Personnel Management
9× shared
Russell Vought
9× shared
Tesla
8× shared
Boaz Barak
6× shared
Federal Aviation Administration
5× shared
Samuel Marks
5× shared
Sean Duffy
5× shared
Starlink
5× shared
AI Safety Researchers
4× shared
Brad Schimel
4× shared
Howard Lutnick
4× shared
Joe Rogan
4× shared
Marco Rubio
4× shared
Office of Management and Budget
4× shared
Pete Hegseth
4× shared
Peter Thiel
4× shared
White House
4× shared
X/Twitter
4× shared
America PAC
3× shared
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