Elon Musk Is Feuding With Yet Another Person Who Dared Criticize Tesla

Elon Musk is once again feuding publicly with a reporter who said something he didn't like. The Tesla chief on Monday criticized a veteran financial journalist at Fortune magazine for implying that his electric automaker acted unethically by taking two months to publicly disclose a deadly crash in one of its semi-autonomous cars. Just 11 days after the May 7 crash -- in which a Tesla driver died while reportedly watching a movie while using his Model S sedan's "Autopilot" function on a Florida highway -- Tesla sold more than 2 billion of stock at a price of 215 per share. "To put things baldly, Tesla and Musk did not disclose the very material fact that a man had died while using an auto-pilot technology that Tesla had marketed vigorously as safe and important to its customers," Carol J. Loomis, a former senior editor-at-large who spent 60 years at the venerable financial glossy, wrote in a story published Tuesday morning. After emailing back and forth with Tesla public relations managers, she said Musk joined the thread.