With its history of controversial decisions It is only worsened since purchasing Twitter, Elon Musk – Owner of EspaceX, You’re hereAnd X – seems a natural candidate for a Last week tonight deep dive.
In the 30-minute video above, host Jean Olivier leaves nothing to chance, from Musk’s rise to power and the bets that made him rich to his shift to the right and recent promotion of an anti-Semitic conspiracy This lead to advertisers are leaving X in droves.
“I’ll be honest: My feelings about Elon have changed a bit during the course of writing this article. I’m probably now more impressed by what he’s doing, but more worried that it’s He’s the one who does it,” says Olivier. “Because he cultivates an image that he is simply too visionary, too original to play by other people’s rules, and he dismisses the damage he causes as the cost of innovation and saving humanity.
“But the truth is that this way of thinking is not original at all. We’ve seen it so many times before. The least surprising thing on Earth is a middle-aged billionaire CEO with selfish libertarian views, a increasingly racist politics, and a messianic complex. And it’s high time he faced the kind of accountability that should come with it – and not just from the echo chamber he bought for himself online, but from all those whose lives are greatly affected by him.
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Jean Olivier
Elon Musk