Elon Musk has gone on an hours-long rampage about Alex Gibney after the Oscar-winning director premiered his documentary about the tech mogul at the Venice Film Festival.
In a series of vicious and sometimes bizarre posts on X/Twitter, Musk accused the filmmaker of having “zero integrity” and being a “bitter old man who lost the plot long ago.”
Musk accused “horrible human” Gibney of directing a “hit piece that misses” in the shape of Musk, adding that the movie was “boring af [as f***]” because it is four hours long.
Representatives for Musk and Gibney have been contacted for comment.
Delving into conspiracies, Musk alleged that the film was a “psy op” and shared an image purporting to show that Gibney was being puppeteered by the Democrats and George Soros.
He also shared an image of Gibney with a realistic poop emoji on his head. “It’s an improvement,” he laughed.
More specifically, Musk took issue with the claims of Ashley St. Clair, the conservative influencer who bore a son by Musk in 2024.
The Tesla boss denied that she was offered a $40 million financial settlement after their split that would have required her to sign a non-disclosure agreement. “She was never offered that and has a history of making false claims,” Musk wrote.
He has also reportedly threatened to sue Gibney’s production company Jigsaw Productions over the documentary’s suggestion that Musk used his Starlink satellites to influence the 2024 U.S. election in favor of Donald Trump.
The New York Post cited a legal letter from Musk’s attorney Alex Spiro, in which the lawyer wrote: “You are … on notice, before release, that the insinuation is false, that the material refuting it is public, and that you chose not to be told the rest.”
According to reports on Musk amid its Venice screening, St. Clair said in the movie: “He had told me [before the election] he was going to unleash the ‘anomaly in the matrix.’”
“Starlink was not connected to vote tabulation. Election officials in multiple states, independent cybersecurity researchers, and fact-checkers publicly refuted the Starlink vote-rigging claim in November 2024, and nothing since has revived it,” Spiro reportedly wrote.
Speaking at a Venice Film Festival press conference, Gibney said he encountered a “tremendous sense of fear” as he canvassed for interviewees for the film.
“What I discovered was that the story of Musk was not, in a way, a new tech story. Though there’s much about it that is tech, but… his story is really the story of an old wine in a new bottle. His story turns out to be the story of the confidence man, the stock pumper, his wealth and power comes from inflated stock, and so I had told that story before with Enron and with Elizabeth Holmes, and so it was a story that was oddly familiar to me,” said Gibney.
