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Elon Musk and Smell of BS

Edward Niedermeyer Slate
The Tesla CEO’s mythmaking often obscures an uglier truth. The public is finally reckoning with it.

Elon Musk and the Oligarchs of the ‘Second Gilded Age’

Nolan Higdon The Conversation
Musk’s desire in buying Twitter goes beyond a desire to shape public discourse. Today’s equivalent of the Gilded Age oligarchs, who are gobbling up increasing chunks of the media landscape, also have access to a trove of personal data of users.
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