The world’s richest man has a problem with his computer. Like most of us, he’s using social media to try to get the company to help him out.
Billionaires: They’re just like us. That’s what Elon Musk reminded us of when he started using X, the social media network that he bought for $44 billion, to resolve his personal tech support problems.
The saga began over the weekend when Musk posted about the problems he was facing with his Windows PC on X. The billionaire was miffed that he couldn’t complete the setup process without apparently creating a Microsoft account, which he didn’t want to do because that meant “giving their AI access to my computer.” (It’s not clear what Musk was referring to here, but we should point out that customers can opt-out of sharing their data with Microsoft Copilot, the AI chatbot integrated into Windows 11)
Musk’s post eventually got pinged by Community Notes, a crowdsourced fact-checking feature on X, which stated that the option he was referring to was still available and proceeded to provide a link to the process.
