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Sometimes, as a journalist, a story you thought was over, it's just the start of something else. Last year, my colleague Basha was working on an investigation about a serial fantasist. Her reporting threw up an intriguing detail about someone unexpected. And I think that you came across something about Musk and private investigators. Yes. So he told people that Elon Musk had put private investigators on him.
Elon Musk. An ambitious billionaire, a free speech absolutist, one of the most powerful men in the world. To many, he's a hero. But to his critics, he's a far-right rabble-rouser. He is somebody who is exceptionally dangerous. Like most sociopaths, like most privileged men in his position, they don't like being challenged.
Basher had discovered that Musk had used private investigators to gather information on someone without their knowledge. And it got me thinking, what if this was just the start of something bigger? I find it difficult to talk about because I think it's the most disgusting thing that you can call anybody, really. And even to the extent where he got a private investigator on me.
What if this free speech champion behaves very differently in private? Just speaking about it makes me anxious and my hands are like rubbing my hands.
What if he uses his resources to suppress critics and to shape the reality around him? We have an active shooter threat. Martin Tripp is on his way to the Gigafactory, threatening to shoot people up and shoot the place up. I hadn't yet dealt with Elon Musk, so I didn't necessarily know that he would then hire people to investigate. It was, or was it that you were told not to say that Tesla had private investigators following him? Both of them.
From Tortoise Media, this is Elon's Spies. I would have to say he's the most brilliant man I've ever met. The most ambitious man I've ever met.
and the one person that you don't ever want to fight with or underestimate.