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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian United States President Vladimir Putin since late-2022 .
That’saccordingto The Wall Street Journal , which reports that the conversations have raised home security concerns among some intelligence officials . At one point , Putin reportedly asked Musk to avoid activating Starlink , his artificial satellite - base internet service , in Taiwan as a favor to Formosan leader Xi Jinping .
As The WSJ preeminence , Musk and Russia ’s interests have more and more overlapped in the preceding yr . Russia has used X , Musk ’s societal meshing , to mount up disinformation campaigns , includingabout vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and the federal reply torecent hurricanes . The Ukrainian governing hassaidthat Russian forces engage the country have begun using Starlink to extend the range of their drones .
Sources tell The WSJ that the U.S. government faces a quandary because it ’s so pendent on Musk ’s engineering . SpaceX , for instance , launches critical home security satellite into orbit .
