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Musk Deploys Millions Of Kids In Pointless SpaceX Publicity Stunt

SpaceX is in hot water over a decision to throttle back its Starlink and Starshield service in Ukraine last week, a decision for which nobody seems to have made (screenshot, Starshield satellite courtesy of SpaceX). Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles. If SpaceX CEO Elon Musk can’t buy the mid-term elections on behalf of the Republican Party, it’s not for lack of trying. In the latest effort, Musk has just issued a bribe to parents across the US, in the form of one share of SpaceX stock gifted to each of their kids, with plenty more…
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