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Musk may well be going mad and I certainly hope he is. I hope his lack of recognition and watching his empire crumble is eating him up inside.
But Seth Abramson is not a reliable narrator let alone "biographer" whatever that means. He has a very long and storied history of embellishing facts, or placing too much weight on rumours and extrapolating way too much from them.
I saw this kind of take a lot when he first started appearing in my feeds, and I just sort of accepted it since I didn't read anything by him anyway.
Now that I've read more, I think his books are well-researched and meticulously cited using primary sources from well-known publications. He's a professor with degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard and I mention that because the original image I was given was he was some influencer or "citizen journalist" who just liked being incendiary, and that's not the case at all.
So are there some examples of his embellishing to share? I don't understand this particular take on him. He's very critical of Trump and has said he's directly connected to the Kremlin (and shown it in the most detailed, and cited, ways), but I don't think he's someone to ignore for that.
TBH, I rather more hope he goes dead.
I'm quite content with that outcome too. I'm just not holding out hope because of something Seth says.