Tesla (TSLA) shares were lower in early trading, following a report from the Wall Street Journal claiming executives at both Tesla and SpaceX are concerned about Elon Musk’s illegal drug use. Musk denied the report, saying he is subjected to random drug testing by NASA. Yahoo Finance’s Seana Smith and Brad Smith weigh in on what the report means for shareholders. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live. Editor's note: This article was written by Eyek Ntekim
  • rsuri@lemmy.world
    511·
    10 months ago

    It’s interesting to look back at his AMA on reddit in 2015. Every response was so to the point and on topic, even friendly. Clearly something changed since then.

    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
      56·
      10 months ago

      I like John Oliver’s take that he really didn’t like the orders to shut down factories during pandemic and got a lot of support from ‘mah freedom’ nutjobs over this causing not-so-slow fall into the extreme right rabbit hole. It actually makes a lot of sense. He clearly craves attention and approval. He used to get it from the left because electric cars are green and SpaceX is cool technology but eventually the left began demanding more regulation and he started getting some criticism (which he doesn’t like that much…). At the same time he noticed that the right is ready to accept him as the ‘free speech savior’ and love him unconditionally as long as he will help them ‘own the libs’ so he switched sides.

    • butterflyattack@lemmy.world
      463·
      10 months ago

      I am guessing he had good publicists, probably decided he could do the job better and got rid of them just before the pedo thing.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        In his recent “interview” with Alex Jones, Musk called all PR firms “propagandists.”. So that tracks.