Elon Musk claims documentarian Alex Gibney is making ‘hit piece’ about him

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk claims Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney is making a “hit piece” about him.

The acclaimed documentarian, who’s famously taken on Scientology and the infamous Enron energy corporation, said Monday the Tesla and Twitter owner is his next subject. When one of Musk’s fans tweeted news of the project, Musk tweeted “It’s a hit piece.”

Gibney replied on Twitter Tuesday, asking Musk, “How would you know?”

Musk, known to spread misinformation on the social media platform he purchased for $44 billion in October, frequently criticizes traditional media services while complaining about reporting he finds unfair.

Gibney told The Hollywood Reporter his next project, already months in the works, is a “definitive and unvarnished” examination of the controversial 51-year-old entrepreneur, whom Forbes lists as the second-richest person on Earth.

Musk fans rushed to the South African native’s defense Tuesday, noting Gibney has a history of slaying giants. He won three Emmy Awards for his 2015 film “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.” His 2005 documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” earned an Oscar nomination for taking on the disgraced energy company’s collapse. The New York City native took home an Oscar for 2007′s “Taxi to the Dark Side,” examining torture and interrogation practices by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Closer Media, one of the Musk film’s producers, said Monday, “Now is the moment for a rigorous portrait of Elon Musk, who is undeniably one of the most influential figures of our time.”

Musk spent part of Tuesday promoting footage of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as presented by Fox News conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson, who is part of a lawsuit alleging he and his colleagues pushed election disinformation they knew to be untrue.

Musk also feuded with a former Twitter employee Tuesday, who said having muscular dystrophy impaired his ability to work.

“The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work,” Musk tweeted. “[He] claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm.”

Musk, who has labored to make Twitter profitable, jokingly compared the company to a charity last month.

“Say what you want about me, but I acquired the world’s largest non-profit for $44B lol,” he tweeted.