On the one hand, I'm sure he is. On the other hand, Twitter is full of a special kind of stupid. One of my joke accounts makes fun of Tesla, and every time I search for posts about them I find an army of rabid fanboys and fangirls who tweet about Tesla non stop. They viciously attack anyone who criticizes Tesla or Musk, and they take their devotion to weird obsessive levels. This is why I have the joke accounts - whether you like Tesla or not, these devotees are /really/ fun to troll.

Tesla trends on Twitter a lot. It did so before the buyout. Every time Tesla is in the news, it becomes a trending topic on Twitter. That doesn't mean Elon is doing anything shady.

But also yeah, he's probably being shady.