EVWire brief: WSJ reports that the Tesla Board is looking for a new CEO. Tesla Board and Robyn Denholm themselves deny it, saying they said so to WSJ before the report aired as well, but the hit piece still went out.
This might be one of those occasions where you’ll see your distant uncle in six months, and they’ll say, “Oh I heard Tesla wants to replace Elon”.
This isn’t the truth, but the fixes to these headlines rarely make it to people as fast and wide as the initial headlines do.
WSJ pulled another one of their stunts and reported that the Tesla Board is looking for a new CEO. All while Tesla Board and Robyn Denholm themselves deny it, saying they said so to WSJ before the report aired as well but the piece still went out.
Here’s Tesla's official account confirming this:
Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company.
This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published).
The CEO of Tesla is
— Tesla (@Tesla)
5:23 AM • May 1, 2025
And here’s Elon's quote post on this:
“It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!”
So there you have it, something for when you meet that uncle… who of course won’t believe you anyway and / or will just repeat some other WSJ headline that is definitely totally correct this time regardless, right?
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