Good or bad millionaires: Elon Musk does not have good press in France

For the French media, not all rich people have the same value. George Soros is a good rich man (“ hated by the fascistsphere “), Bolloré a bad rich man (” in the service of the extreme right “). This Manichaeism is systematic, as the examples of Bryan Johnson and Elon Musk show.

Bryan Johnson spends two million dollars a year on the Blueprint project. Objective: for his organs to regain their 18 years – he is 47. A philanthropist, he does not keep to himself the recipe for his fountain of youth, based on sports, day creams, food supplements and seeds… or plasma change: “ The operator said my plasma is the purest he's ever seen. […] He couldn't bring himself to throw it away. He imagined all the good my plasma could bring to the world “, says Johnson, proud of his fluids.

From eating seeds, his face lost so much weight that he looked older, which was counterproductive. He had donor fat injected into his face. The allergic reaction was violent. The photos speak for themselves. What is just as eloquent is that this gentle madman is spared from the headlines of the French press.

Quite different is the treatment reserved for Elon Musk, “ adored billionaire and guru of the global extreme right » (Humanity). The media focuses on the social network X, which it is fashionable these days to announce that we are going to leave, for fear of endorsing the “extreme right”. But there's more to Elon Musk than X.

SpaceX et Starlink : high-tech

With SpaceX, Musk created, in 2002, an aerospace company that impresses with its technological innovations. SpaceX recently recovered a Starship launcher from the arms of the launch tower. A tour de force greeted with teeth by the French press, without special broadcast or report – it would not be a question of saying good things about Elon Musk…

On the other hand, a new attempt failed on November 19. The press enjoys: “ Elon Musk's Starship rocket, under Trump's eyes, ends up in the water after a failed maneuver » (HuffPost), as if it were a deudeuche in the ditch after a missed slot. In fact, SpaceX is so efficient that NASA – the Biden administration's NASA – has entrusted SpaceX with the future deorbiting of the International Space Station at the end of its life.

Another company owned by Musk: Starlink, which claims to achieve universal Internet coverage through a constellation of mini-satellites. This desire to make the Internet accessible in the depths of Africa, the Amazon or France should make Elon Musk a recognized philanthropist. Nay! “ With Starlink, Elon Musk takes control of the Internet from the sky », headlined, recently, The Parisianas if Musk was improperly taking possession of something… that he imagined, designed, financed and created.

Tesla and the end of fossil fuels

Another company bought by him: Tesla, which will ultimately make autopilot cars commonplace. Better: Musk has done more for the end of fossil fuels than all French ecologists combined by making the brand a major player in photovoltaics. But when he declares that solar could provide all of the world's energy, Lemon squeezera site specializing in new technologies, is quick to point out that it is “ a stupid and nasty calculation “. The same site finds nothing wrong with Bryan Johnson's rejuvenating regimen, even reporting that, ” according to doctors “, that works.

If he were on the left, Elon Musk would be a pioneer of aerospace, new technologies and renewable energies. Unfortunately for him, he is condemned to the infamous titles of “ megalomaniacal billionaire “, of ” conspiracy pillar » and “ far-right political actor “. But we bet he has better things to do with his days than read the French press.