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Elon Musk, the world's second-richest person has shared brief details about his childhood. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, whose net worth is $178.2 billion revealed he has never received anything in inheritance, not even a large financial gift. His statement snubs claims which said Musk is not a self-made billionaire also his father's claims that he bankrolled Musk from Zambia's emerald mine.

Elon Musk, the world's second-richest person has shared brief details about his childhood. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, whose net worth is $178.2 billion revealed he has never received anything in inheritance, not even a large financial gift. His statement snubs claims which said Musk is not a self-made billionaire also his father's claims that he bankrolled Musk from Zambia's emerald mine.

Musk responded to a tweet by Deborah who mentioned, " Even having a wealthy family, a student can have a lot of financial difficulties. On the other hand, the cited source is not reliable at all".

Musk responded to a tweet by Deborah who mentioned, " Even having a wealthy family, a student can have a lot of financial difficulties. On the other hand, the cited source is not reliable at all".

To which Musk replied that he grew up in a lower, transitioning to the upper, middle-income situation but he never experience a happy childhood.

To which Musk replied that he grew up in a lower, transitioning to the upper, middle-income situation but he never experience a happy childhood.

"I grew up in a lower, transitioning to an upper, middle-income situation, but did not have a happy childhood. Havent inherited anything ever from anyone, nor has anyone given me a large financial gift".

"I grew up in a lower, transitioning to an upper, middle-income situation, but did not have a happy childhood. Havent inherited anything ever from anyone, nor has anyone given me a large financial gift".

Musk said his father, Errol Musk, never supported him financially after high school in "any meaningful way".

Musk said his father, Errol Musk, never supported him financially after high school in "any meaningful way".

Revealing about his father's business, Musk stated "My father created a small electrical/mechanical engineering company that was successful for 20 to 30 years, but it fell on hard times. He has been essentially bankrupt for about 25 years, requiring financial support from my brother and me.".

Revealing about his father's business, Musk stated "My father created a small electrical/mechanical engineering company that was successful for 20 to 30 years, but it fell on hard times. He has been essentially bankrupt for about 25 years, requiring financial support from my brother and me.".

However, the billionaire showed gratitude to his father, and said "he does deserve credit for teaching me the fundamentals of physics, engineering, and construction, which is more valuable than money".

However, the billionaire showed gratitude to his father, and said "he does deserve credit for teaching me the fundamentals of physics, engineering, and construction, which is more valuable than money".

Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk, a chef and an entrepreneur in South Africa provided financial support to their father on one condition that he would not engage in bad behaviour.

Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk, a chef and an entrepreneur in South Africa provided financial support to their father on one condition that he would not engage in bad behaviour.

"Unfortunately, he nonetheless did. There are young children involved, so we continued to provide financial support for their well-being," he added.

"Unfortunately, he nonetheless did. There are young children involved, so we continued to provide financial support for their well-being," he added.

Spurning the theory of Musk's father has an "emerald mine", the Twitter chief said, "there is no objective evidence whatsoever that this mine ever existed. He told me that he owned a share in a mine in Zambia, and I believed him for a while, but nobody has ever seen the mine, nor are there any records of its existence. If this mine was real, he would not require financial support from my brother and me".

Spurning the theory of Musk's father has an "emerald mine", the Twitter chief said, "there is no objective evidence whatsoever that this mine ever existed. He told me that he owned a share in a mine in Zambia, and I believed him for a while, but nobody has ever seen the mine, nor are there any records of its existence. If this mine was real, he would not require financial support from my brother and me".

Last month, Elon Musk offered a million Dogecoin (almost $78000) o anyone who could prove the existence of an emerald mine his father supposedly owned.

Last month, Elon Musk offered a million Dogecoin (almost $78000) o anyone who could prove the existence of an emerald mine his father supposedly owned.

Subsequently, Musk's father Errol gave an interview to The Sun wherein he confirmed the existence of the mine and l.

Subsequently, Musk's father Errol gave an interview to The Sun wherein he confirmed the existence of the mine and l.

"What Elon is saying is that there was no formal mine. It was a rock formation protruding from the ground in the middle of nowhere," Errol told the tabloid, noting that he kept his involvement with the operation "under the table."

"What Elon is saying is that there was no formal mine. It was a rock formation protruding from the ground in the middle of nowhere," Errol told the tabloid, noting that he kept his involvement with the operation "under the table."

"There was no mining company. There are no signed agreements or financial statements," he explained. "No one owned anything. The deal was done on a handshake with the Italian man at a time when Zambia was a free for all."

"There was no mining company. There are no signed agreements or financial statements," he explained. "No one owned anything. The deal was done on a handshake with the Italian man at a time when Zambia was a free for all."

Errol Musk also stated that emerald money paid for his son's move to the US, where Elon would go on to attend the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School on scholarship with, apparently, emerald-generated cash in his pocket for living expenses.

Errol Musk also stated that emerald money paid for his son's move to the US, where Elon would go on to attend the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School on scholarship with, apparently, emerald-generated cash in his pocket for living expenses.

"Elon's main concern is not to appear to be a 'trust fund kid' who got everything given to him on a plate," Errol Musk told the tabloid.

"Elon's main concern is not to appear to be a 'trust fund kid' who got everything given to him on a plate," Errol Musk told the tabloid.

Elon Musk's father added that his son took risks and worked like blazes to be where he is today.

Elon Musk's father added that his son took risks and worked like blazes to be where he is today.

"The emeralds helped us through a very trying time in South Africa when people were fleeing the country in droves," he concluded.

"The emeralds helped us through a very trying time in South Africa when people were fleeing the country in droves," he concluded.

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Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk have reportedly discussed the possibility of working together, according to Axios. Left: Janos Kummer/Getty Images, Right: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogu

Tucker Carlson has had at least one conversation with Elon Musk about working together, according to a new report from Axios.

However, the former Fox News commentator and billionaire Twitter and Tesla CEO reportedly did not discuss the specifics of what such an arrangement could look like, per Axios.

Rumblings of their discussion comes as Axios further reports that Carlson is teaming with allies to break his Fox contract, which currently runs through 2025 and prevents him from working with other outlets. Carlson and recently-fired CNN anchor Don Lemon have both retained the same lawyer, Bryan Freedman, to settle disputes with their former employers.

"The idea that anyone is going to silence Tucker and prevent him from speaking to his audience is beyond preposterous," Freedman told Axios.

Musk has said in the past he has voted for both Democrats and Republicans, but during the 2022 primaries urged independent voters to lean Republican to prevent a Democrat majority.

Social media extremism experts previously told Insider that Musk often uses his Twitter to amplify right-wing messaging. He also frequently interacts with right-wing commenttors on Twitterlike Mike Cernovich and accounts with names like "End Wokeness".

Axios reported that Carlson has been in contact with conservative outlets like Newsmax and Rumble, and is also considering starting his own website to reach an audience like his predecessor, Bill O'Reilly.

The weeks since Carlson's firing have been filled with leaks from his time at Fox, from texts he sent describing his violent thoughts watching a group of "Trump guys" attack an "antifa kid" to video of Carlson asking one of his makeup artists whether the women of Fox News had "pillow fights" in the bathroom.

Carlson has been quiet publicly about his still relatively unexplained departure, so far only making brief comments to a Daily Mail reporter and sharing a video on Twitter on April 26 just after 8 p.m. his old time slot at Fox, which has seen its ratings dip since he left.

Freedman, as well as representatives for Twitter and Tesla, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider sent Sunday afternoon.

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A new report from Mashables Matt Binder says that more than half of Twitter Blues earlier subscribers are no longer subscribed at all. 54% of the 150,000 users who signed up when Elons new Twitter Blue launched in November are no longer subscribing.

With advertising way, way down, Musks plan has always been to drive up subscriptions, mainly with the draw of a verified blue check that is for say for $8-11 a month, which he took away from everyone who had it for free, verified under the old system. Thats except for celebrities and public figures with over a million followers, where hes just giving it to them to ensure there remains some appearance of validity to the system.

Now, a user has suggested that Musk should open up Twitter Blue to allow for gifted subscriptions, to which he replied Ok. A short statement, perhaps, but one that does seem somewhat inevitable. If you cant get people to sign up on their own, let Blue superfans start throwing out gifted subscriptions to 1, 5, 10 of their friends if they want.

Of course this raisesobvious questions. The signature hallmark of the Twitter Blue system is the blue check. So first, this essentially destroys Musks argument that the new blue check is better for fighting bots because you have to have a credit card attached to your account. Now, you just needa friend with a credit card.

Then, the second thing. If gifting a Twitter Blue subscription didnt just give your friends access to the features of the system like longer video uploads and tweet editing, but also gave them a blue check, which many current users no longer want, given its association with Musk and his acolytes, it feels like a almost a weaponization of the checkmark. Someone making fun of you for your blue check? Troll them with a sub that gives them one too.

You cannot really have the option to turn off the check because Musk wants it advertised that loads of Twitter users are subscribing to Blue (loads are not, despite what the first ten people in your replies may indicate). I feel like the only solution here would be toallow people to reject gifted subscriptions? This runs counter to the idea of places where gifted subscriptions work and are universally viewed as good in places like Twitch and Discord. This all circles back around to Musk forcing the check mark as a forced public indicator of your subscription, along with auto-surfacing your replies, when really all you may want is better video, lists and editing capabilities. Thats a gifted sub I would have no problem accepting, if it was just that. But I very much do not want to be a Twitter Blue Guy and I dont think most other people want that, either.

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Serial entrepreneur, founder of multiple multi-billion dollar companies the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter Elon Musk opened up more about his personal life yesterday.

He wrote a long tweet to clarify the confusion surrounding his teenage life, early career, and inheritance from his family especially his fathers emerald mines.

Just recently, some of the mainstream media outlets published stories of how Elon Musk thrived so much inheriting a fortune mainly from the emerald mine his father owned in the past.

I grew up in a lower, transitioning to upper, middle income situation, but did not have a happy childhood. Havent inherited anything ever from anyone, nor has anyone given me a large financial gift, Elon Musk started the tweet with this paragraph.

Elon Musk outright denied getting any financial assistance to build his business empire in the United States.

The rumors of Elon Musk inheriting a fortune from his fathers apartheid emerald mine or slave emerald mine are not new. These rumors first started appearing on social media back in 2013 and Musk has denied these rumors in the past as well. But this time, he went into a bit of detail.

For example in the following tweet from Dec 2019, Elon Musk said that he ended up in a ~$100k student loan despite working through college. He couldnt even afford a 2nd computer at his company Zip2.

The emerald mine rumors once again started picking up pace after Elons father Errol Musk gave an interview to The Sun last month. Errol said that he actually owned an emerald mine in Zambia (near Lake Tanganyika).

Elon Musks father even went on to say that his son knew about the mine when the family lived together in South Africa. And precious stones kept coming to them from time to time and Elon Musks sister even owned some of them.

Errol says that he used the money from his emerald mine to send his sons Elon and Kimbal Musk to North America. Though he admitted that this emerald mine was kind of a protruded rock, not an actual mine (the story he told The Sun is highly interesting but hard to swallow at the same time).

Elon Musk had to compose a long story responding to this emerald mine rumor because a Community Note on Twitter tagged a mainstream news story as a source of confirmation of this gossip. At the request of the community, this note was later on removed from the social media platform.

Heres the complete post in Elon Musks words:

I grew up in a lower, transitioning to upper, middle income situation, but did not have a happy childhood. Havent inherited anything ever from anyone, nor has anyone given me a large financial gift.

My father created a small electrical/mechanical engineering company that was successful for 20 to 30 years, but it fell on hard times. He has been essentially bankrupt for about 25 years, requiring financial support from my brother and me.

That said, he does deserve credit for teaching me the fundamentals of physics, engineering and construction, which is more valuable than money, but did not support me financially after high school in any meaningful way.

Our condition of providing him financial support was that he not engage in bad behavior. Unfortunately, he nonetheless did. There are young children involved, so we continued to provide financial support for their well-being.

Regarding the so-called emerald mine, there is no objective evidence whatsoever that this mine ever existed. He told me that he owned a share in a mine in Zambia, and I believed him for a while, but nobody has ever seen the mine, nor are there any records of its existence.

If this mine was real, he would not require financial support from my brother and me.

Elon Musks mother Maye Musk also commented on his tweet and said the family moved to Toronto in 1989 in a one-bedroom apartment. The family later on moved to another apartment and that she never heard of an emerald mine until the rumors started on Twitter about 10 years ago.

I only briefly lived with my Mom tbc [to be clear] lol, Elon Musk stated in a reply to his mothers above tweet.

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The mother of Elon Musk, the eccentric billionaire owner of Twitter and Tesla, enjoyed visiting Santorini but evidently did not leave Greece after her professional duties and is now soaking up the views and joys of Hydra.

Hello Hydra, Greece. I spent a wonderful day exploring this beautiful island," Maye Musk wrote on Twitter before thanking CAA Speakers and Golden Yachts.

Days earlier she turned to Twitter again to show off her snaps from Santorini.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk quashed claims that his father Errol Musk used emeralds from an "under the table" mine to finance him and said he didn't have a happy childhood and grew up in lower middle income situation.

His mother Maye Musk replied, "When we moved to Toronto in 1989, we stayed in a one-bedroom apartment until I found a rent-controlled apartment."

The Twitter owner wrote on his platform: "I grew up in a lower, transitioning to upper, middle income situation, but did not have a happy childhood. Havent inherited anything ever from anyone, nor has anyone given me a large financial gift.

"My father created a small electrical/mechanical engineering company that was successful for 20 to 30 years, but it fell on hard times. He has been essentially bankrupt for about 25 years, requiring financial support from my brother and me.

"That said, he does deserve credit for teaching me the fundamentals of physics, engineering and construction, which is more valuable than money, but did not support me financially after high school in any meaningful way.

"Our condition of providing him financial support was that he not engage in bad behavior. Unfortunately, he nonetheless did. There are young children involved, so we continued to provide financial support for their well-being.

"Regarding the so-called 'emerald mine', there is no objective evidence whatsoever that this mine ever existed. He told me that he owned a share in a mine in Zambia, and I believed him for a while, but nobody has ever seen the mine, nor are there any records of its existence.

"If this mine was real, he would not require financial support from my brother and me."

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