SAN FRANCISCO: Against the backdrop of several media reports appearing on Elon Musk's activities, the technology billionaire has called media "click-seeking machines".
Taking to Twitter, Musk slammed the media, which came after the Wall Street Journal reported his alleged affair with Google Co-founder Sergey Brin's wife Nicole Shanahan, which the Tesla Chief Executive offier has vehemently denied. "The media is a click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine," Elon Musk commented.
Of late, the Tesla and SpaceX Chief expressed his displeasure with the unwanted media attention he is getting these days. He said the attention "super sucks," and he will carry on to focus on doing useful things.
The Wall Street Journal report claimed that "Elon Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, prompting the Google Co-founder to file for divorce earlier this year and ending the tech billionaires' long friendship".
Musk later hit out at the newspaper for linking him with Shanahan, asking his over 102 million social media followers to criticise the publication for going ahead with a false story. Musk told his followers to "call them out on it".
Musk said that character assassination attacks had reached a new level this year, but "the articles are all nothing-burgers".
Elon Musk denies affair with the wife of Google co-founder
