Fri 29 July 2022:
Elon Musk, a tech billionaire, has referred to the media as “click-seeking machines” in response to a number of articles about his activities.
After the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article alleging that Musk had an affair with Sergey Brin’s wife Nicole Shanahan, which Musk vehemently denied, the Tesla CEO criticized the media on Twitter.
“The media is a click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine,” Musk said.
Recently, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO expressed his displeasure with the unwanted media attention he is getting these days.
He said the attention “super sucks,” and he will continue to focus on doing useful things.
The WSJ report had claimed that “Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, prompting the Google Co-founder to file for divorce earlier this year and ending the tech billionaires’ long friendship”.
Musk later hit out at the newspaper for linking him with Shanahan, asking his more than 102 million social media followers to slam the publication for going ahead with a false story.
He told his followers to “call them out on it”.
Musk said that character assassination attacks had reached a new level this year, but “the articles are all nothing-burgers”.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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