Musk went down conspiracy rabbit holes and sank Tesla's stock with his behavior. And he was confronted with a chorus of boos in the cradle of the tech industry.
A Grand Unified Theory of Why Elon Musk Is So Unfunny
Elon Musk's terrible sense of humor: a theory of how the Tesla and Twitter CEO became obsessed with proving that he's funny.
Elon Musk reportedly forced Twitter algorithm to boost his tweets after Super Bowl flop
A tweet from Joe Biden garnered triple the impressions than Musk’s game time post, sending Twitter engineers scrambling to boost their boss
Twitter’s Pre-Musk Plans Mirrored Elon’s Vision—Until He Abandoned, Trashed Or Ignored Them
Today, the new book by NY Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, comes out. If you’re at all interested in what went down, I can’t recommend it …
The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
The Definitive Story of Tesla Takedown
In February, a Bluesky post caught the eye of Alex Winter. The result is a coalition of environmentalists, anti-Trump advocates, and federal workers that’s been hyping Tesla’s stock slide ever since.
How Elon Musk’s Own Account Dominates X (Published 2024)
The billionaire has effectively become the star of his social media platform, transforming X into a reflection of his personal views before the election.
Casey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
Tech journalism mainstays are feebly rationalizing their return to a broken, billionaire-run right-wing propaganda website.
Narratives
What Elon Musk got wrong about Twitter, journalists and VCs got wrong about FTX, and Peter Thiel got wrong about crypto and AI — and why I made many of the same mistakes along the way.
Twitter Engineer Fired On Twitter Calls Musk’s Team ‘A Bunch Of Cowards’
The Android developer frets over Twitter’s near-future: “No one trusts anyone within the company anymore.”
Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...
MUSK | Only In Select Theaters October 9, Nationwide October 16
An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded “inventor-entrepreneur” who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live.
They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (Published 2025)
Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.
Inside Tesla's gigantic Gigafactory
Tesla’s groundbreaking new factory could make or break Elon Musk, the company’s charismatic but under-pressure chief executive.
The Musk Bump: Quantifying the rise in hate speech under Elon Musk
Since his takeover of Twitter Elon Musk has repeatedly promised to clamp down on hate speech while taking unilateral policy decisions, such as reinstating abusive accounts, that encourage the spread of hate speech on his platforms.
How Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views
As X’s owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used it as a microphone to amplify his political views and those of the often right-wing figures he’s aligned with.
