Elon Musk’s 7 biggest Twitter spats, with Jeff Bezos, Azealia Banks, Pablo Escobar’s brother, the US government and more
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk uses Twitter to attack everyone from fellow billionaires like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and David Einhorn to artists such as Azealia Banks
Elon Musk has a combative streak.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is famously unpredictable as chief executives go, a personality trait which has sometimes landed him in trouble – particularly with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
But Musk’s combative side does not just express itself in skirmishes with government agencies. The Tesla billionaire has ended up in bizarre spats with a strange array of people – from fellow billionaires to artists to rescue divers – and often via his preferred medium of Twitter.
The twists and turns in the stories of Musk’s various battles are no less baffling, and it can be hard to remember all the different ways Musk has squared up to various public figures and regular citizens.
So, we’ve catalogued his weirdest fights.
1. When he called a complete stranger “pedo guy”
Vernon Unsworth is the British diver who took part in the rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave system in June 2018. It was a difficult, complex operation and the boys were successfully rescued after being trapped for 17 days by international divers and Thai Navy Seals. Unsworth, an experienced cave explorer, was asked by Thai officials to aid in the rescue.
He had never met Elon Musk, but would go on to spend most of 2019 locked in a legal battle with the Tesla billionaire.
Musk had inserted himself into the Thai rescue operation and offered to build a mini-submarine to fetch the boys. The idea never materialised.
