{"id":2028711,"date":"2023-09-11T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/author-corrects-reporting-on-elon-musk-cutting-ukraines-access-to-starlink\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T23:16:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:16:22","slug":"author-corrects-reporting-on-elon-musk-cutting-ukraines-access-to-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/author-corrects-reporting-on-elon-musk-cutting-ukraines-access-to-starlink\/","title":{"rendered":"Author clarifies Elon Musk did not cut Ukraine&#8217;s access to Starlink."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fauthor-corrects-reporting-on-elon-musk-cutting-ukraines-access-to-starlink%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2028711&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Author Corrects Mischaracterization of Elon Musk&#8217;s Actions in Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>Author Walter Isaacson has set\u200b the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-talk-to-me-that-way-dont-ever-talk-to-the-president-that-way-president-trump-slaps-down-media-hack-sets-the-record-straight-on-sham-election-video\/\" title=\"No Respect...\"Don't Talk to Me That Way - DON'T EVER Talk to the President That Way!\" - President Trump SLAPS DOWN Media Hack - Sets the Record Straight on Sham Election (VIDEO)\">record straight<\/a>\u200b regarding a \u2064media\u200c narrative \u200bthat emerged \u200clast week surrounding SpaceX CEO Elon Musk&#8217;s donation of Starlink&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-gives-valuable-defense-contract-to-china-collaborator\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Gives Valuable Defense Contract to China Collaborator\">satellite communications<\/a> to the Ukrainian \u200bmilitary. The controversy\u2063 began when an excerpt\u2064 from Isaacson&#8217;s upcoming book &#8220;Elon Musk&#8221; was published\u2064 by The Washington Post, falsely claiming that Musk had personally shut down Ukraine&#8217;s \u2063Starlink to prevent a major attack on the \u2064Russian\u2062 Navy.<\/p>\n<p>However, Isaacson has since clarified \u2063the\u2062 situation, correcting the mischaracterization. The \u2064Washington\u200d Post issued a correction, and Isaacson himself \u2063addressed the issue on X, the\u200c platform owned by Musk. The \u2064corrected\u2062 version now accurately reflects the events:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Throughout the evening and into the night, he personally took charge of the situation. Allowing the \u2064use\u2064 of Starlink for the attack, he concluded, could be a disaster for the world. So\u2063 he secretly told his engineers to turn off coverage within 100 kilometers of\u200d the Crimean coast. As a result, when the \u2062Ukrainian drone subs got near the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, they lost connectivity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-responds-after-ukraine-accuses-him-of-disrupting-attack-on-russian-fleet\/\" title=\"Elon Musk reacts to Ukraine's accusation of disrupting Russian fleet attack.\">washed ashore harmlessly<\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When the Ukrainian military noticed that Starlink was disabled \u200bin and around Crimea,\u200b Musk got frantic\u200b calls and texts asking him to\u2063 turn the coverage back on. Fedorov, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opec-russia-agree-to-drop-oil-prices-to-wipe-out-competition\/\" title=\"OPEC, Russia agree to drop oil prices to wipe out competition\">deputy prime minister<\/a> who had originally\u2063 enlisted his help, secretly shared with\u200c him the details of how the\u200b drone subs were crucial to their fight for freedom. &#8216;We\u2064 made \u2064the sea drones ourselves, they can\u2063 destroy any cruiser or \u200dsubmarine,&#8217; he texted using an encrypted app. \u200b&#8217;I did \u2062not share this information\u2063 with anyone. I just want you \u2014 the person who is changing the \u200cworld through\u2064 technology \u2014 to know this.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/author-corrects-reporting-on-elon-musk-cutting-ukraines-access-to-starlink\/\" title=\"Author clarifies Elon Musk did not cut Ukraine's access to Starlink.\">initial excerpt sparked intense criticism<\/a> of Musk in \u2062the media, but the \u200bcorrection has now clarified the true sequence \u2062of events. Isaacson&#8217;s book and The\u200d Washington Post&#8217;s correction both \u200cconfirm \u200dthat Musk had already disabled Starlink&#8217;s coverage near Crimea before the attack took place. When the Ukrainians discovered this, they\u200c requested Musk to activate\u2064 the coverage, but he refused, fearing it could escalate into a major war.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Isaacson further explained the situation: &#8220;To clarify on \u2063the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled \u2064all the way \u2062to Crimea, but it was\u200b not. \u200cThey\u2062 asked Musk to enable \u200cit\u200b for their drone\u2064 sub attack on the Russian \u2063fleet. Musk \u2064did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, \u2062that would cause \u200ba major war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isaacson later admitted his own mistake, acknowledging that he\u2062 had misunderstood \u2064the timing of the policy to not allow Starlink for an attack on Crimea. He \u2062clarified that the policy had \u200dbeen implemented earlier, and \u200don the night of \u200bthe Ukrainian \u2063attempted sneak attack, Musk simply reaffirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>With these corrections, the true \u2062account of\u2062 Musk&#8217;s actions in Ukraine \u200dhas been \u2062clarified, dispelling the earlier mischaracterizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Walter Isaacson clarified a media misrepresentation regarding SpaceX CEO Elon Musk&#8217;s donation of Starlink&#8217;s satellite communications to the Ukrainian military. An excerpt from Isaacson&#8217;s upcoming book &#8220;Elon Musk&#8221; wrongly stated that Musk personally halted Ukraine&#8217;s access. The Washington Post published the correction, rectifying the narrative that had gained traction last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2028712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}