Musk Threatens to Sue Over Gibney's 'Musk' Documentary
The Spin
Right narrative
A director who spent years trashing Musk online and cutting checks to Democrats was never going to produce anything but a hit piece. The proof is right there in the film's central claim — that Musk used "space lasers" to steal the 2024 election, a conspiracy theory already debunked back in 2024, even by outlets like PolitiFact. Gibney selling partisan revenge as accountability journalism is a disgrace to documentary filmmaking.
Left narrative
The self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" sicced his lawyers on a movie he hasn't even watched, which tells its own story. A documentary built on years of research, documents and testimony from people who actually worked with him deserves a point-by-point rebuttal with evidence. Refusing to engage with fact-checking and then pursuing the defamation angle looks a lot like fear of the finished product.
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