Elon Musk blocked the feature of Alex Gibney’s documentary on his X platform from being advertised. The film chronicles the history of xAI and SpaceX head Elon Musk, who threatened legal action against Gibney for producing what he called a "hit piece."
Musk, who identifies as a "free speech absolutist," faced a mixed response from other tech giants as TikTok maintained its ban on his ads while Meta subsidiaries and YouTube reversed their decisions. Larry Ellison, cofounder of Oracle, led a consortium of investors that purchased TikTok’s US business in late 2025 and reportedly promised Gibney that Musk will air on HBO in January 2027.
Other upcoming media projects include Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, a character study portraying Sam Altman as a manipulative sociopath scheduled for wide release on 25 December 2026. Amazon backed out of a deal to distribute Artificial in June 2026, despite the company investing $50 billion in OpenAI.
Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning focuses on allegations by whistleblower Frances Haugen, whose warnings were first reported by The Wall Street Journal in 2021. The film frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilising society.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything depicts Elizabeth Holmes as she prepares for a prison stint following a sentence of more than 11 years. Before her sentence began, Nathan Fielder lived with Elizabeth Holmes and William Evans in a rental home for one month.
