> Throughout the evening and into the night, he personally took charge of the situation. Allowing the use of Starlink for the attack, he concluded, could be a disaster for the world. So he secretly told his engineers to turn off coverage within 100 kilometers of the Crimean coast. As a result, when the Ukrainian drone subs got near the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, they lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly.
He then said he was "mistaken".
Does Isaacson make stuff up like "secretly asking engineers to turn it off" or was he asked to change it?
https://www.businessinsider.com/walter-isaacson-biography-el...
Also, why didn't you include the next sentence from your Wikipedia link?
> In October 2026, Starlink restricted Ukrainian access by imposing a speed limit of 160 km/h, disrupting several combat missions and preventing its use to intercept jet-powered Russian drones, in an attempt to get Ukraine to stop long-range strikes on Russia’s oil industry.[18][19][20]