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.”

So a new thing happened. A paper we submitted got rejected by a journal after automated plagiarism detection. It turned out two students in India had plagiarised our preprint and then published online reports. So we've been accused of copying them. Fun.