'Drama magnet': Elon Musk's biggest headlines of 2023

Elon Musk's favourite movie quote, according to his biographer, is Gladiator's "Are you not entertained?" Some members of Musk's considerable global audience were also horrified as controversial statements and management decisions grabbed the headlines yet again this year. Musk's brother, Kimbal, told Walter Isaacson, author of the Elon Musk biography published in September, that his sibling was a "drama magnet". He added: "That's his compulsion, the theme of his life." That impulse was on full display in 2023.