Elon Muskhas troubletelling the truth.
Musk called this period excruciating in aninterview, claiming he was working brutally long hours.
The stabs at comedy, combined with more erratic and impulsive posting habits, caused trouble here and there.
Elon Musk speaking in Cannes, France.Richard Bord/WireImage
Am considering taking Tesla private at $420.
They also revealed the potentially significant ramifications of his unfiltered commentary.
Instead, Covid-19 would kill well over a million Americans.
Kids are essentially immune, but elderly with existing conditions are vulnerable.
Family gatherings with close contact between kids & grandparents probably most risky.
My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci, Musktweeted.
Two months later, he appeared todirectly endorsethe conspiracy theory that Fauci funded the development of Covid-19.
(After all, Teslas factories were open again, and Musk hadtaken the jabdespite hisearlier skepticism.)
The tweet received admiring replies from that cohort and high engagement overall.
It also led his then-partner Grimes to advise him to turn his phone off or call her.
I cannot support hate, she responded.
I know this isnt your heart.
(The second most-followed account, which belongs to Barack Obama, has 130 million followers.)
He later deleted the tweet, but not before he caused the conspiracy theory totrend on Twitter.
By now, Musk was all in on conservatives project of discounting right-wing motivations for political violence.
Musk publicly doubted these FBI-verified details, wondering if they were part of a very bad psyop.
He also liked posts from a Twitter user falsely claiming the shooter had been a Mexican gang member.
Their hashtag campaign, #BanTheADL, was rife with antisemitic memes.
And these are just the falsehoods Musk tweeted himself.
Over and over, in every venue, he was utterly indifferent to truth.
Its a personal subject for Musk, who has a trans daughter, Vivian Wilson.
Another point of interest for Musk of late is the presidential election.
Probably, however illegals are not prevented from voting in federal elections.
This came as a surprise to me.
