Elon Musk has told the public that he is in good mental health, even though he recently said that there is a “significant” chance that “something bad” will happen to him.
During a Twitter Space Q&A that took place, Musk was asked, among other things, if he has ever thought about ending his life. People from all over the world came to see the event.
A source says that he denied the claims and said the following:
I do not have any suicidal thoughts. If I committed suicide, it’s not real.
Even though it might seem strange to ask the richest man on the planet this question, Musk has made a passing reference to his own death in a tweet from the month of May.
If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin’ ya.
During the Q&A, the founder of SpaceX and CEO of Twitter said that he has recently felt like there is a very real target on his back and that he thinks there is a “quite significant” chance that he will be killed.
Frankly the risk of something bad happening to me, or even literally being shot, is quite significant,
he said.
It’s not that hard to kill somebody if you wanted to, so hopefully they don’t, and fate smiles upon the situation with me and it does not happen.
There’s definitely some risk there.
Musk said that “open-air car parades” pose such a high risk to his life that he won’t take part in any in the near future. After Musk took over Twitter, he fired tens of thousands of people who worked there.
The billionaire said these things after the first part of what has been called the Twitter Files came out recently. The Twitter Files give an open look at Twitter’s corporate communications over the past few years, including some of the most controversial times for the company.
Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, two journalists, were given full access. Later, Musk said it “might make sense” to make the documents “publicly available” so that anyone can look at them.
But for now, it’s up to the chosen journalists and other news professionals to figure out what they think is important and report on it.
Taibbi got things going on Friday night last week when he posted a thread that explained why the famous Hunter Biden laptop story was buried. The New York Post published the story for the first time in October 2020, right before the last presidential election. Taibbi gave details about how the story was hidden.
What you’re about to read is the first instalment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter,
wrote Taibbi.
The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story.
An amazing subplot of the Twitter/Hunter Biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get "unfucked" (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
Different members of Twitter’s content moderation team talked back and forth in the emails, which led to the questionable decision to ban the story without consulting Jack Dorsey, the platform’s co-founder and former CEO at the time.
Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be ‘unsafe,
wrote Taibbi.
They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
Musk said that the goal of the Twitter Files exercise is to “tell the truth about everything that has happened in the past” in order to build trust with the public for the future.
I’m not controlling the narrative. It’s just obvious there’s been a lot of control of information, suppression of information, including things that affected elections, and that just all need to be … you just want to have the stuff out there,
he said.
