According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, President Joe Biden’s administration is concerned about Elon Musk’s recent statements and is debating whether the United States should subject its companies to national security scrutiny, including the Twitter deal and Starlink study.
US officials have expressed concern over Elon Musk’s recent statement that he will stop supporting Starlink in Ukraine at his own expense. A series of posts on the Twitter social network also caught the attention of the authorities. They are also concerned about plans to buy Twitter with a group of foreign investors.
In this regard, the US government, together with representatives of the United States Intelligence Community, began to work on options for controlling the business activities of the businessman. Such discussions are still at an early stage, but the most obvious solution would be to launch an investigation into the potential national security risks arising from and from Musk’s operations on the Foreign Investment Committee in the United States. Shares of foreign investors in American companies.
The reason for tying this regulator may be that the entrepreneur intends to acquire the Twitter company along with investors from Saudi Arabia, China and Qatar.