{"id":18159,"date":"2025-03-18T12:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/why-is-elon-musk-still-ceo-of-tesla\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:38:35","slug":"why-is-elon-musk-still-ceo-of-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/why-is-elon-musk-still-ceo-of-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Elon Musk still CEO of Tesla?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tech billionaire and his EV company suffer, Apple castigates itself over Siri failures and a Meta tell-all book evokes a strong reaction<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. In this week\u2019s edition: Elon Musk suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Apple beats itself up over Siri, and Meta goes after one of its own over a tell-all book.<\/p>\n<p>The past 10 days have marked several of the most significant setbacks for Musk in months. Tesla, arguably his marquee company, continued to fall in value as investors worried about the threat of trade war and possible recession \u2013 as well as declining profits. Escalating protests against the company over the billionaire\u2019s role in the government also grew in number and intensity across the US, coupled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/14\/trump-musk-doge-federal-leases\">rising cases of vandalism and social stigma against his cars<\/a>. SpaceX has also struggled, with one of its rockets dramatically exploding in midflight last week and then an announcement that it was delaying a rescue mission to retrieve \u201cstranded\u201d astronauts. The company tried again two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to Musk\u2019s headaches, his social media platform, X, experienced widespread outages throughout the day on Monday. During a Fox Business interview, he claimed that it was the result of a \u201cmassive cyberattack\u201d that the company had traced to the area of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/15\/elon-musk-18f-x-false-claims\">How an obscure US government office has become a target of Elon Musk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/16\/deeply-uncomfortable-uk-starlink-users-switch-off-over-musks-political-machinations\">\u2018Deeply uncomfortable\u2019: UK Starlink users switch off over Musk\u2019s political machinations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/13\/elon-musk-tesla-takedown-protest\">Elon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That proves our movement is working | Valerie Costa<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2025\/mar\/18\/elon-musk-tesla-apple-siri-meta-techscape\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/28feb7933ffb5103d40e403c3b5a2f17a73bc2be\/0_0_6750_4050\/master\/6750.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=080b7453a49fb53413dfa4fa5e343611\" title=\"Why is Elon Musk still CEO of Tesla?\" \/>The tech billionaire and his EV company suffer, Apple castigates itself over Siri failures and a Meta tell-all book evokes a strong reaction<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. In this week\u2019s edition: Elon Musk suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Apple beats itself up over Siri, and Meta goes after one of its own over a tell-all book.<br \/>\nThe past 10 days have marked several of the most significant setbacks for Musk in months. Tesla, arguably his marquee company, continued to fall in value as investors worried about the threat of trade war and possible recession \u2013 as well as declining profits. Escalating protests against the company over the billionaire\u2019s role in the government also grew in number and intensity across the US, coupled with rising cases of vandalism and social stigma against his cars. SpaceX has also struggled, with one of its rockets dramatically exploding in midflight last week and then an announcement that it was delaying a rescue mission to retrieve \u201cstranded\u201d astronauts. The company tried again two days later.<br \/>\nAdding to Musk\u2019s headaches, his social media platform, X, experienced widespread outages throughout the day on Monday. During a Fox Business interview, he claimed that it was the result of a \u201cmassive cyberattack\u201d that the company had traced to the area of Ukraine.<br \/>\nHow an obscure US government office has become a target of Elon Musk<br \/>\n\u2018Deeply uncomfortable\u2019: UK Starlink users switch off over Musk\u2019s political machinations<br \/>\nElon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That proves our movement is working | Valerie Costa Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech billionaire and his EV company suffer, Apple castigates itself over Siri failures and a Meta tell-all book evokes a strong reaction Hello, and welcome to TechScape. In this week\u2019s edition: Elon Musk suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Apple beats itself up over Siri, and Meta goes after one of its &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/why-is-elon-musk-still-ceo-of-tesla\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is Elon Musk still CEO of Tesla?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}