A new almost four-hour documentary titled "Musk", which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, features former partners and associates of Elon Musk making startling claims about the billionaire's beliefs and business practices. The film, discussed in this piece by journalist Alison Boshoff, portrays the Tesla and SpaceX chief as harbouring apocalyptic views and pursuing an active plan to father numerous children with Right-wing women ahead of an anticipated "civil war", while also allegedly making misleading claims to inflate his companies' stock value.

Among the claims made by former partners, first wife Justine Wilson and ex-girlfriend Ashley St Clair both say Musk sought to create a "legion" of children, with St Clair alleging he referred to messages from women offering to bear his children as a "Gatling gun of sperm". The documentary also revisits disputed claims about Tesla's self-driving technology, linked to around 60 US deaths, a decade-long delay on colonising Mars, and a 2013 pledge on battery-swapping stations that reportedly earned Tesla $11 billion (£8 billion) in Californian carbon credits despite never being widely rolled out. It further raises concerns that Musk's roughly 11,000 Starlink satellites and data gathered during his brief tenure leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could be used to influence the upcoming US mid-term elections.