The Wall Street Journal reported that Tesla’s (TSLA) board of directors opened a search last month for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk, which Musk said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is “deliberately false.” Musk said: “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!”
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