Musk director Alex Gibney speaks to WIRED at a screening and Q&A event for his Elon Musk documentary at WIRED World Fair in Miami.
\n\nI've been on a wild ride, traveling all over the place,
\n\nbut also enduring attempts by Elon Musk
\n\nand then a series of attempts by social media platforms
\n\nthat seem to be in alignment to refuse to take our ads.
\n\nAt various stages, once we had our trailer
\n\nand we wanted to advertise it, Meta,
\n\nwhich is Instagram and Facebook, YouTube, TikTok,
\n\nand, of course, X, all refused to run our ads.
\n\nNow, once an article was published about it,
\n\nsort of like Claude Rains in the film Casablanca.
\n\nThey were shocked that such a thing had happened
\n\nand apologized and said it was a mistake.
\n\njust on the eve of our theatrical release.
\n\nAnd then when an article was written about that,
\n\nSo there's this odd confluence of things that happen.
\n\nAnd weirdly for me, it happened right around the time
\n\nthat all of the tech titans were having dinner
\n\nwith Xi Jinping at the White House.
\n\nIt just seemed a kind of serendipitous
\n\nThe Silicon Valley people I talked to on background
\n\nhave generally…
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