In a bid to get ahead of this week’s controversy over Elon Musk’s reported drug abuse, SpaceX published an hour-long video of a 2017 staff meeting in which the influence of narcotics was alleged to be responsible for his “cringeworthy” behavior.
The decision to air the footage can be seen as an attempt to offer full transparency into an episode that could risk billions of dollars in government contracts while simultaneously cutting off oxygen to a damaging story from the Wall Street Journal.
