An image of Elon Musk making a controversial salute during a speech on Monday was projected onto Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin. The display featured Musk's gesture alongside the words "Heil Tesla." Newsweek reached out to Tesla's communications team for comment on Wednesday.

Musk's response to the accusations has included the complaint that the "legacy media" is trying to cancel him.

"I’m ending my lease two months early. When the Tesla rep asked why I’m not considering another Tesla, I said I’m sick of being associated with Elon."

Elon Musk had sharp words for a private-sector partnership touted this week by the Trump administration to hasten the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk said of two of the participants in the $500 billion initiative, OpenAI and SoftBank, on his social media site X.

Elon Musk’s increasingly controversial actions are making waves across the globe with Tesla owners taking drastic action. A study in the Netherlands, by media company EenVandaag, found that nearly three in ten owners are considering selling their vehicles.

Elon Musk has his work cut out for him as DOGE kicks into gear. Many shareholders aren't worried about him losing focus on Tesla.

Elon Musk has been condemned as "a mixture of mad and right-wing extremist" by professor Jens-Christian Wagner, a historian who runs the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, the largest in Germany.

I would prefer to stay out of politics,” Elon Musk told his followers in 2021, on the platform then known as Twitter. Plenty has changed since then. The world’s richest man appears to have a new goal: upending Europe.

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of what was thought to be an asteroid was soon deleted.

Elon Musk, once a tech visionary, now faces backlash for toxic content on Twitter (X) and his political entanglements, raising accountability concerns.

Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump 's White House Press Secretary, spoke about Elon Musk for the first time since the Trump ally's criticism of Stargate, a new entity that plans to invest $500 billion in U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.