Pivot Extra: Inside “Musk”: Power, Family and the Making of a Tech Demagogue

Filmmaker Alex Gibney discusses his new documentary “Musk,” which examines how Elon Musk has accumulated so much power and why the public has given it to him so willingly. The nearly four-hour film connects SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, X, xAI, and Neuralink into a larger story about the threat Gibney believes Musk poses to democracy. Kara Swisher also speaks with Justine Musk, Elon’s first wife, who appears in the documentary after years of public silence. They discuss Musk’s obsession with being seen as an engineer, Gibney’s use of a computer-generated Elon as a stand-in for an interview, and Musk’s hard shift toward right-wing politics.