Free Press Journal : Jul 30, 2020, 03:28 PM
New York: On Thursday, Tesla boss Elon Musk slammed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates after later hit out saying Musk should perhaps focus on making electric vehicles and rockets rather than spreading misinformation about COVID-19.Taking to Twitter, Elon Musk wrote: "Sounds like he doesn’t realize Tesla makes the vaccine machine for CureVac."Meanwhile, in another tweet Elon Musk responded indirectly to Gates comment with a hilarious tweet. "The rumour that Bill Gates & I are lovers is completely untrue," he wrote on Twitter.
On Tuesday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates spoke at length about coronavirus misinformation in an interview with CNBC. Gates, during the interview, said, “Elon’s positioning is to maintain a high level of outrageous comments.”The Tesla boss has making headlines for all the wrong reasons ever since the pandemic hit the US."He's not much involved in vaccines. He makes a great electric car. And his rockets work well. So he's allowed to say these things. I hope that he doesn't confuse areas he's not involved in too much," Gates said.Gates' comments came after Elon Musk spoke misleadingly about COVID-19 and expressed doubt over the severity of the pandemic in the United States. "There are a lot of C19 false positives messing up the numbers. Even tests with 5% false positive rate (in field, not lab) would show up as ~17 million fake C19 cases even if there were actually none," Musk had tweeted on July 1.The rumor that Bill Gates & I are lovers is completely untrue
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 30, 2020