‘Musk’ Documentary Suggests DOGE’s Real Purpose Was Something Else Entirely
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The “Musk” documentary is out in theaters nationwide next week.
Alex Gibney’s “Musk” documentary, out in theaters nationwide next week, has already been grabbing headlines for the alarming texts its billionaire subject once sent to a romantic partner, former right-wing influencer Ashley St. Clair.
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Elon Musk sent alarming texts to Ashley St. Clair shortly before Election Day 2024.
St. Clair, who participated in the film, revealed that Elon Musk told her shortly before Election Day 2024 that he was feeling “optimistic” because “tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix.”
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Elon Musk said he has over 10,000 lasers in space right now.
Asked what he meant, Musk pointed to “lasers from space,” saying, “I have over 10,000 lasers in space right now.”
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Alex Gibney cannot say whether Elon Musk was bragging or lying about the texts.
Gibney has been careful to note that he cannot say whether Musk was bragging to a romantic partner or lying.
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At a Friday screening, Alex Gibney said the texts seemed like an important detail to include.
At a Friday screening of the new film, the director said the texts to St. Clair seemed like a pretty important detail to include.
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If I was to hazard a guess,” Gibney said, “it had to do with not the switching of votes, but with the reporting of votes, and that he knew sooner than anybody else did because, you know, out of the voting systems, there are things that appear on the internet, and if you know how to hack into them, you can get real-time data.
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Elon Musk appeared at the 2009 North American Auto Show.
Elon Musk appears at the 2009 North American Auto Show.
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A hyperrealistic deepfake Musk — albeit with a cartoonishly enlarged head — addresses viewers at many points throughout the film, delivering lines in what appears to be Musk’s own voice.
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The film says Tesla vehicles lie to owners, hiding actual driving‑range estimates.
The film also says Tesla vehicles lie to their owners, hiding actual driving-range estimates and other information.
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But it also takes time to discuss Musk’s pro‑natalist views and the array of women who have borne his children — or “breeders,” as ex‑wife Justine Musk alleges someone “on Elon’s side” once called the women.
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Gibney introduces viewers to Errol Musk, the billionaire’s father, who tells a bizarre tale about his son’s non‑reaction to seeing a family friend collapse and die in front of him, choosing instead to read a comic book.
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Elon Musk’s political turn accelerated around the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
Musk’s hard‑right political turn appears to accelerate around the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Its four‑hour runtime may sound like a slog, but there is more than enough material in “Musk” to fill it out — to the extent that Gibney could leave out such bizarre controversies as Musk’s involvement in the Thai cave rescue and such humiliating anecdotes as the time Musk reportedly wrecked his $1 million McLaren with Peter Thiel in the passenger seat.
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Elon Musk operates xAI and its chatbot Grok, which was integrated into Pentagon systems this year.
Musk, of course, operates the artificial intelligence company xAI and its chatbot, Grok, which was integrated into Pentagon systems this year.
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Geoffrey Hinton says Donald Trump is “hell‑bent” on disrupting the midterms.
Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist known as the “godfather of AI,” says in the documentary that it seems “clear” to him that Trump, for one, is “hell‑bent” on disrupting the midterms.
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump have made nice following their blowup over Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Musk and Trump have made nice following their blowup over Trump’s so‑called “Big Beautiful Bill,” which increased the federal deficit even as Musk was tasked with decreasing it, as the documentary points out.
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It also takes time to mull over the capabilities of DOGE staffers — a team of young men who capped out at around age 25 and did not seem to be interested in spending time learning about the vast systems of government they were tasked with streamlining, ostensibly to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” of federal tax dollars.
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DOGE ended up erratically swinging an axe at the federal workforce, halting critical scientific research, slashing the National Weather Service, and dismantling USAID, leaving rations that could have fed 3.5 million people to rot in storage.
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After Friday’s screening, Gibney pointed out it was “discomforting” that “one of the things we know about DOGE is that these kids knew next to nothing about the agencies they went into.”
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“One troubling aspect of the DOGE tenure,” executive producer Ronan Farrow said Friday, “is there are genuinely unanswered questions about what happened to the private, sensitive data of Americans — Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, the list goes on and on. This is the kind of information that was harvested, exfiltrated, given to a third party, and we do not know exactly what became of it from there, or who all the players were involved.”
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Ronan Farrow said the harvested data could be used for electoral purposes.
“Now, this is the kind of information that can be very sensitive in many ways, but one of them is from an electoral standpoint,” Farrow said.
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“There’s a kind of harmony … toward the end of the film, with the data that they access from DOGE,” Gibney said, adding, “which may indeed be, you know, training data for AI to interfere with the midterm elections we’re about to engage in.”
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HuffPost reached out to an attorney for Elon Musk for comment.
HuffPost has reached out to an attorney for Musk for comment.
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Musk has been putting up a fight over the film, barring “Musk” ads from appearing on X and pressuring other social platforms including Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram from showing them, too. (Gibney said Friday that the ads were blocked because they supposedly fell into the category of “political advertising.”)
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Elon Musk called Alex Gibney a “douchebag to his core” with a “bias” against him on X.
He engaged in name‑calling with Gibney on X, saying the director “is a douchebag to his core” with a “bias” against him.
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“Musk” will stream in January on HBO, which has become part of the Ellison family’s media empire.
“Musk” is set to stream in January on HBO, the network which just became part of the Ellison family’s media empire.
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Donald Trump has made nice with Elon Musk.
Trump, who has made nice with Musk.
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