Overnight, Tesla responded to the Wall Street Journal’s decision to publish a story late on Wednesday about Elon Musk’s future with the EV company–one that Tesla says the publication knew was fake news. In the story, the WSJ quotes anonymous sources allegedly “familiar with the discussions” that the company began a search in April for a CEO to replace Musk. But it was another media outlet’s jumping on the story that is troubling. More on that later.
Tesla Board of Directors chair, Robyn Denholm, fired back in an X post:
Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company.
This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published).
The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the Board is highly confident in his ability to continue…
