Kirsten Grind

NEW: Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, has been accused by family members of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren. Elon has repeatedly had to intervene, a secret that’s spanned generations. Our months-long investigation www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Elon Musk is now trying to claim he doesn’t do drugs. Here’s our response @nytimes.com

NEW: Megan Twohey and I went deep on Elon Musk’s intense drug use as he rose to political power alongside Trump last year. He was using so much ketamine that he told people it was affecting his bladder. At SpaceX, he is getting warnings ahead of drug tests www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

White House responds to our story: “The drugs that we’re concerned about are the drugs running across the southern border.” No comment on whether Musk’s been drug tested or if Trump was aware

Elon Musk’s fans love to perpetuate the myth that he’s living in austerity like Steve Jobs; in fact he’s hiding his massive spending through a secret network of private companies in Texas, our investigation found www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

NEW: Elon Musk said he was “selling almost all physical possessions” when he moved to Texas. Nope. Instead, he has secretly amassed land and penthouses and planes and mansions. We just had to spend months digging through private company records to find it all. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

Okay so Musk isn’t going to Mars, but he IS building AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/t...

Musk is saying this like NBD but it is a massive shift, not just for SpaceX but for all his businesses long oriented around getting to Mars. He had already started colonization plans there

Important story from @sheeraf.bsky.social on the technology used by ICE to track protesters and immigrants www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

“This is industrial-scale abuse of women and girls:” more than 40% of the images on Grok over nine days contained sexualized pics of women (and that’s a conservative estimate) from @kateconger.com and team www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

We really doing this again?

This is such incredible reporting from my colleagues: much of Musk’s government cost-cutting efforts at the helm of DOGE were “an accounting mirage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

NEW: Elon Musk has spent $600 million to open schools across the country. In reality, he’s operating…a daycare, records show. And he’s homeschooling his own kids. Some fun reporting w/ @sheerafrenkel www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/t...

As Tesla’s board lobbies for Elon Musk’s trillion dollar pay package, a reminder that this is NOT an independent board: our @wsj (Pulitzer winning!)investigation from last year: www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...