The Left's Lies About Musk, Starlink, and Ukraine

Contrary to what the MSM and social media were blaring for the last week or so, Musk did not "turn off" Starlink, thwarting a Ukranian naval drone attack.

Unlike the MSM, Ars Technica has enough integrity to correct its original account:

Update on September 9: Author Walter Isaacson now says his book's claim that Elon Musk disabled Starlink to thwart a Ukrainian submarine drone attack is incorrect. Musk did refuse to enable Starlink in the area near Crimea, however.

"To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not," Isaacson wrote. "They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war."

I'll grant that they seem to have gotten the story from Musk's biographer...but it was never plausible. Did they bother to confirm the story? They did not. The lefties really, really, really hate Musk. And that hatred is as fact-free as the rest of their worldview.