Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, was recently mired in a scandal when the Wall Street Journal reported that he’d had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

The world’s richest man recently tweeted, “Much harder to make friends than enemies. My skill at the latter is improving.” 

This is the 51-year-old’s third tweet in as many days where he’s lashed out at the media and generally kicked up a storm about the spotlight being on – and clearly not in a way the innovator likes. 

Musk had earlier tweeted, “The amount of attention on me has gone supernova, which super sucks. Unfortunately, even trivial articles about me generate a lot of clicks :(“

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At the time, he vowed to focus on matters that’d benefit the future of human civilization. Then, he lashed out at the media saying it is “a click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine”. 

He’d earlier denied the affair with Shanahan saying, “This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night! I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic.”

WSJ reported that Musk had broken up with his on-again-off-again girlfriend Grimes when the affair took place. He was reported to have gone down on a knee in front of Brin, apologizing for the transgression. 

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Musk didn’t hold back from hitting out at the publication, saying “WSJ has run so many bs hit pieces on me and Tesla I’ve lost count! It’s embarrassing for them, frankly. They once wrote an article saying FBI was about to arrest me, so I called FBI to ask what’s up and they said WSJ article was total bs. Just more shortseller fud.”

He continued, “WSJ is supposed to have a high standard for journalism and, right now, they are way sub tabloid. WSJ should be running stories that actually matter to their readers and have solid factual basis, not third-party random hearsay”.