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In new Elon Musk documentary, his lieutenants are the most damning voices

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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — It’s easy to find people with bad things to say about tech magnate Elon Musk, and plenty of those people show up in “Musk,” a new documentary about his rise to political and corporate power. What’s more surprising in the film are the unflattering statements by some of his own employees, including ones who still work for him.

Some of the harshest scenes in the film, which opens Friday in Los Angeles and New York, are ones in which Musk’s lieutenants were recorded on video or in audio as they wielded power on his behalf or discussed what they had already done for him.

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