The problem with Elon Musk is that he is a very interesting person. I know he is hated in cryptocurrency, because he said a lot of bullshit on his twitter, but this guys is an inventor. A lot of people respect him. He created several interesting companies (tesla, spacex, paypal, starlink,..).
He has some authority ,not because he is rich, but because he is a genius. Sadly, he is now spreading misinformation about bitcoin...
But the problem is that people do not seem to understand that even if he is very capable, and no one can deny that, that doesn't mean that he knows it all, when it comes to bitcoin and this market in general he has said stuff that even newbies know it's not true so that should give us an idea of how little he knows about this market and yet for some reason people follow him and think that now he is the biggest authority in this market when even satoshi did not wanted that kind of protagonism.