Elon Musk is one of the richest men in the world, but the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has seen a lot of tragedy in his life. It all started at a young age, when he faced both bullies in school and an abusive father whom Musk still prefers not to talk about.

Elon Musk is being investigated in Europe amid concerns the billionaire's influence, for instance through his posts on X, constitutes an "interference" in upcoming elections. Newsweek has contacted Musk via the press office of X,

Musk has been using this distribution channel since xAI launched its first version of the Grok large language model, adding features like trending story summaries and AI-generated questions on posts as well as releasing the Grok chatbot (initially) to X users exclusively.

Has anyone outside politics – the people some politicians, among themselves, call ‘civilians’ – had such an effect on the political process as Elon Musk? The richest man in the world (and money has long helped buy influence) is about to become co-director of the new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) in Washington DC.