Elon Musk slams WSJ over CEO succession report; Tesla denies claims

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has strongly criticised The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for a report that claimed Tesla’s board has been exploring options for a new chief executive.Responding on X, Musk wrote: “It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the @WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!”

The claims

The WSJ article alleged that Tesla board members had contacted several executive search firms about a month ago to begin looking for a successor to Musk. The…