What Elon was doing in Autumn of 2022:

[applegrove]

A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T15:11:38.678Z

Applegrove: was that when he went over to the dark side?

[h2ebits]

1. Not previously unreported. I did make the news back then.

[mwmisses4289]

3. I seem to remember a lot of outrage and anger

toward mr. musk when this came out in 2022. It was President Zelenskyy who first broke the news, iirc?

Edited to add: That was also when speculation began about musk being tied to Russia somehow.

[applegrove]

4. I vaguely remember that or something like it. Musk

is lucky Zelenskyy outed him or Putin would have blackmailed him.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. I'm pretty sure that the info that came out was about a different Ukrainian operation that he sabotaged.

One involving Crimea and aquatic drones. I'm not sure that this one came out at the time.

[h2ebits]

9. That's my recall also.

[progressoid]

5. Should read, "previously ignored by most of the press"

[rubbersole]

2. It appears that Elon was always on the dark side.

Buying the presidential election spilled the tea.

[Duppers]

7. Eloon is not to be trusted.

[Celerity]

8. Archive link to the article

https://archive.ph/DKuld