Musk has spent days bounding in and out of meetings, sitting in on phone calls, weighing resumes and traveling to Washington as Trump’s unofficial co-president.

Social media platform Bluesky is soaring in popularity as people abandon Elon Musk’s X in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election victory. There have been concerns about the spread of hate speech, bots and weak moderation since Elon Musk took over Twitter and rebranded it as X.

Bluesky, a rival to Elon Musk's online platform X, has tracked a major growth spurt in the wake of the US presidential election outcome. In the past week alone, 700,000 users, mostly from the US, have joined the platform,