Elon Musk’s Silly War With the Media
The billionaire’s Twitter tirade was so ill-informed it led to a subtweet from his former head of communications.
Updated on May 24 at 4:30 p.m. ET
Elon Musk’s screed against the media began with a story about Tesla.
“The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them,” the entrepreneur tweeted Wednesday, with a link to a post on the website Electrek. The author of that post criticized news coverage of recent Tesla crashes and delays in the production of the Model 3, calling it “obsessive” and saying there’s been a “general increase of misleading clickbait.”
Musk followed that tweet with an hours-long tirade in which he suggested that journalists
