By Steven Symes 
After a report from The Wall Street Journal claiming Tesla’s board was moving to oust Elon Musk as CEO, board chair Robyn Denholm has publicly said the allegations are “absolutely false.” We’ve heard these sorts of rumblings for a while, especially as Musk has become increasingly involved with the Trump administration, hurting feelings along the way.
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But Denholm clarified that Tesla’s board is “highly confident” in Musk’s leadership and his abilities to keep the automaker on a growth path, despite recent struggles, in an official Tesla statement on X. In fact, Denholm even says this denial was communicated to The Wall Street Journal before the scandalous report was published, yet that wasn’t included.
Musk’s reaction to the report was far sharper, as he posted on X that The Wall Street Journal had engaged in “an extremely bad breach of ethics” by running “a deliberately false article.” In a separate post, he went on to say the newspaper is “a discredit to journalism.
If you’ve been noticing a sharp increase in negative coverage of Elon Musk and even Tesla over the past several months, maybe even the past three years, you’re not imaging things. The constant parade of articles attacking Musk, including over silly things, has been relentless.
One could argue all that is an intentional move to get the man out of Tesla. Why would that be? We’re not entirely sure, although power is often a motivating factor in these types of situations.
Some think the timing isn’t a coincidence as Tesla is gearing up to launch the Robotaxi. We don’t know if the autonomous EV will truly make or break the company, but right now there’s plenty hinging on it.
We’ve run our fair share of criticisms of Musk and Tesla, which is our job as journalists, but at the same time we think anyone who wants to buy and drive one of the company’s electric vehicles should. If the market truly turns away from Tesla, which it momentarily seems to be backing off of EVs altogether, then so be it.
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