<story><title>Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures</title><url>https://www.gq.com/story/powerplay-tesla-musk-excerpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>practice9</author><text>The waterfall of misinformation:&lt;p&gt;1) Author fabricates &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; for his book&lt;p&gt;2) Tabloids copy those &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; and add filler to fabricate outrage&lt;p&gt;3) Twitter outrage specialists pick these &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; up and retweet&lt;p&gt;4) Other people form their opinion based on 1), 2), 3)</text></item><item><author>iamcreasy</author><text>I guess there are some true facts in this book but I am overall very skeptic of the picture the author is trying to paint or the conclusions he is drawing from those facts.&lt;p&gt;For example, the book says Elon wanted to be Apple&amp;#x27;s CEO post Tesla acquisition on a phone call. But Elon said it many times over the years that he rather spend his time on engineering and design over management.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Also Tim Cook mentioned in an interview that he never spoke with Elon Musk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WA</author><text>You don’t need to read fabricated facts if you simply can follow Elon on Twitter. If you put down the rose-tinted glasses, you see that he puts out a lot of dumb stuff and many lies.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures</title><url>https://www.gq.com/story/powerplay-tesla-musk-excerpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>practice9</author><text>The waterfall of misinformation:&lt;p&gt;1) Author fabricates &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; for his book&lt;p&gt;2) Tabloids copy those &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; and add filler to fabricate outrage&lt;p&gt;3) Twitter outrage specialists pick these &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; up and retweet&lt;p&gt;4) Other people form their opinion based on 1), 2), 3)</text></item><item><author>iamcreasy</author><text>I guess there are some true facts in this book but I am overall very skeptic of the picture the author is trying to paint or the conclusions he is drawing from those facts.&lt;p&gt;For example, the book says Elon wanted to be Apple&amp;#x27;s CEO post Tesla acquisition on a phone call. But Elon said it many times over the years that he rather spend his time on engineering and design over management.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Also Tim Cook mentioned in an interview that he never spoke with Elon Musk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belltaco</author><text>&amp;gt;Other people form their opinion based on 1), 2), 3)&lt;p&gt;Not just opinion but mental disease diagnoses.</text></comment>