Elon Musk’s biographer is walking back a key claim in his highly anticipated biography even as it hits store shelves this week.
Last week an excerpt from journalist and historian Walter Isaacson’s “Elon Musk” ran in several publications. In it, the veteran author of multiple major biographies wrote that Mr. Musk secretly told his engineers to turn off Starlink satellite access around the Russian-controlled Crimean coast ahead of a Ukrainian sneak attack on Russian ships in the area.
Now, after a weeklong media firestorm, Mr. Isaacson is amending his claims. On Thursday evening, Mr. Musk fired back at the claims on X, the platform he now owns formerly known as Twitter, saying that the regions in question around Crimea, which Russia unilaterally annexed in 2014, never had access to Starlink satellite technology in the first place.
Mr. Musk’s rebuttal was confirmed by Mr. Isaacson two days later. The author wrote on X that the Ukrainians were under the false impression that they had access to Starlink everywhere and that Mr. Musk simply reaffirmed the existing policy by refusing to extend it to Crimea.
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