Musk's and hangers-on like fellow Apartheid era Tankie Sacks fueled his many grudges and suspicions, a feedback loop that one former confidant likened to the radicalizing effect of a social-media algorithm. Even some of Musk's closest advisers were left in the dark...
until the purges of journo's began to decimate freedom of speech, freedom of the media, and Tesla. As another longtime confidant put it, “Musk decided that his own thinking would be enough.”