Digging Deeper - Elon Musk: Postmodern Prometheus or Plain Old Icarus?

Elon Musk is in trouble once again over something he tweeted. Yes, we all know he says stuff that’s really out there, but this time around he has landed even Tesla in some legal trouble.

Musk had tweeted on August 7, “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” He followed that up with another tweet, “Shareholders could either to sell at 420 or hold shares & go private.”

Some 10 days later came news that the US Justice Department was looking into those announcements. Sounds serious, doesn’t it? Like some of those intimidating men in nondescript black suits drove to Elon Musk’s office in black SUV’s after reading his tweets.

Anyway, it looks like another Elon Musk tweet had landed him in a soup yet again. And given the antipathy between Musk and American news media, such a serious issue concerning one of the world’s more prominent billionaires warrants a closer look, or a deeper dive as we like to refer to it.