Elon Musk's controversial $1 million swing state giveaway concluded with the final prize going to a man who worked on Donald Trump's campaign.

Tyler VanAkin was pictured on election day at an Atlanta airport as the final winner of the contest run by Musk’s pro-Trump campaign group, which offered $1mn prizes to registered voters in swing states who signed a petition “in support of the constitution”.

Musk's Tesla stake rose by $111 billion — 65% — last year. All but $2 billion of Musk’s Tesla gain and about 98% of what other Tesla shareholders gained came after Election Day, when Musk began hanging out extensively with Donald Trump and started calling himself Trump’s “first buddy.

Elon Musk is being investigated in Europe amid concerns the billionaire's influence, for instance through his posts on X, constitutes an "interference" in upcoming elections. Newsweek has contacted Musk via the press office of X,

Having successfully worked to get his candidate elected in the US, Elon Musk is setting his sights on Europe. In a series of posts on his X platform in recent weeks, the billionaire backer of Donald Trump has honed in on Germany and the UK.