Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries to Approve Starlink

Friday, May 16, 2025

Since Trump's inauguration, the State Department has intervened on behalf of Starlink in Gambia and at least four other developing nations, previously unreported records and interviews show ...

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THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks' doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) May 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM

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Per CIA, English is the official language of Gambia which has a population of 2,523,327 people, evenly split between male and female. There are several tribes, but the people are mostly Muslim (96.4%) with a small Christian minority of 3.5%. GDP per capita is $2,900 and 21% of Gambians paid a bribe to a public official in the past twelve months: transparency.org

The well-to-do government of Ontario recently cancelled a $100m contract with Felon Musk to install Starlink for 15,000 homes up north:
www.cbc.ca

So, how much money can Felon Musk possibly make off of these poor people in Gambia?

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-16 05:57 PM | Reply

It's cool that The Gambia exists only along the shores of the Gambia River. It's not cool that they're in business with white supremacist Musk

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-16 06:43 PM | Reply