Am I the only one who still remembers the 2010-something when Elon Musk posted on Reddit criticizing Thomas Edison to promote his Tesla cars? Suddenly numerous articles and memes from unknown page accounts popped up praising Nikola Tesla and hating Edison. I remember physicists had to clarify that while Tesla was a brilliant scientist, people needed to stop attributing inventions to him that he didn’t actually invent.

At the time, I knew Elon was spreading misinformation as a marketing tactic.