“How am I in this war?”
Musk asked, according to CNN’s accounting of an excerpt of Isaacson’s book. “Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”
The CNN report relies on reporting from Isaacson’s new biography without saying how Isaacson did it. For instance, Musk “secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet,” CNN writes, citing Isaacson’s book. It’s unclear from CNN’s accounting how Isaacson knows this, though perhaps it will be clearer once the book is out.
The report goes on, “As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they ‘lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,’ Isaacson writes.” CNN does not address how Isaacson confirmed that the drones required internet or how he knows that they washed ashore. I am a little skeptical about this story because it seems like the kind of thing a journalist covering the war in Ukraine might have reported earlier. It’s possible Isaacson has some sources on the ground there, but without a copy of the book — or CNN noting how Isaacson did his reporting — it’s hard to know. It is a remarkably big claim, and for big claims, I like proof of work. I am much more comfortable with Isaacson directly quoting Shotwell and Musk.
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