{"id":24768,"date":"2026-09-08T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/state-handouts-10000-lasers-and-trumps-election-six-things-we-learned-from-the-elon-musk-film\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:37:27","slug":"state-handouts-10000-lasers-and-trumps-election-six-things-we-learned-from-the-elon-musk-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/state-handouts-10000-lasers-and-trumps-election-six-things-we-learned-from-the-elon-musk-film\/","title":{"rendered":"State handouts, 10,000 lasers \u2013 and Trump\u2019s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Gibney\u2019s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch\u2019s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children<\/p>\n

Veteran documentarian Alex Gibney\u2019s film about the richest broligarch on the planet<\/a> has been one of the most eagerly anticipated films at the Venice film festival this year. The Oscar-winning 72-year-old, who has in previous films taken on the US military, the Catholic church, Vladimir Putin and Scientology, has been investigating the tech tycoon\u2019s ascent and speaking to people in his orbit since late 2022, before his Maga turn and Trump 2.0.<\/p>\n

The result clocks in at just under four hours and presents a comprehensive answer to how on earth one man managed to amass so much money and political influence. It is shocking less for any individual new pieces of information Gibney has unearthed than for its totality. Here are six things the film tells us:<\/p>\n

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\nAlex Gibney\u2019s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch\u2019s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children
\nVeteran documentarian Alex Gibney\u2019s film about the richest broligarch on the planet has been one of the most eagerly anticipated films at the Venice film festival this year. The Oscar-winning 72-year-old, who has in previous films taken on the US military, the Catholic church, Vladimir Putin and Scientology, has been investigating the tech tycoon\u2019s ascent and speaking to people in his orbit since late 2022, before his Maga turn and Trump 2.0.
\nThe result clocks in at just under four hours and presents a comprehensive answer to how on earth one man managed to amass so much money and political influence. It is shocking less for any individual new pieces of information Gibney has unearthed than for its totality. Here are six things the film tells us: Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Gibney\u2019s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch\u2019s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children Veteran documentarian Alex Gibney\u2019s film about the richest broligarch on the planet has been one of the most eagerly anticipated films at the Venice film festival this year. The Oscar-winning 72-year-old, who has in …<\/p>\n

State handouts, 10,000 lasers \u2013 and Trump\u2019s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24769,"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\/24768"}],"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=24768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}