From Tesla to SpaceX, I’m not sure I’ve seen a business titan get more glowing press than Elon Musk. And yet, he’s decided to take some time away from running companies, digging tunnels, and selling flamethrowers to attack the media, including the great reporters at the Reveal and the Center of Investigative Reporting. It might be time for Elon to take a few days off and recharge the batteries.

+ This was the Reveal report that lit the fuse. And this is their latest piece on worker conditions at Tesla.

+ Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith: “Musk may be trying to ape Trump’s tactics, but his absurd charge — ask Exxon or Ford if they’d swap their press for Tesla’s — reveals something different: how little the tech barons shaping the new ways we live and consume information understand about journalism.”