For weeks, Musk has characterized social-distancing orders as a form of fascistic state control
Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Most Americans are still prepared to observe lockdowns until the pandemic runs its course. Elon Musk is not one of them. The Tesla founder is publicly eager to get workers back on the job, and has repeatedly used his Twitter account to downplay the threat of deadly infection. He may now have violated the law.
An agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission previously forced Musk to resign as Tesla chairman over tweets that implied, falsely, that he intended to take the company private. The new Musk tweets reflect a similar disregard for the law, and escalate a longer-running public fight with various public officials over the Fremont factory.
Matters soured even further on May 9, when Musk, on Twitter, threatened to move his factory out of California altogether if he didn’t get his way. An exasperated California state legislator eventually lashed out at Musk on her own Twitter account: County officials tell a somewhat different story. “We were working on a lot of policies and procedures to help operate that plant and quite frankly, I think Tesla did a pretty good job, and that’s why I had it to the point where on May 18, Tesla would have opened. I know Elon knew that. But he wanted it this week,” Scott Haggerty, an Alameda County supervisor, told the New York Times.
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