Alex Gibney

American film director and producer

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If you’re in a cult and you assume that he’s your supreme leader, then maybe just like the folks in Scientology, you’ll criticize the film and you won’t see it,
I started out doing the film because it was about 21st century power,
Would Musk be able to call Larry or David and say, you know, don’t put this doc on? Yeah,
How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”
He had a childhood that was very difficult and traumatic,
One thing that I didn't properly understand when I started the film was how Musk tweaked algorithms at Twitter to, in fact, prioritize vitriol and hate over, you know, the town square,

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