Musk Wasn't Invited To Davos, Organizers Prove

The World Economic Forum (WEF) says billionaire Elon Musk wasn't on the guest list for the annual meeting of business executives, global leaders, and cultural trendsetters in Davos, Switzerland, despite what the Twitter owner claims, proving again another monstrous lie from the notorious narcissist, Jamey Keaten reported for the Associated Press (AP).

Photo Insert: Organizers did extend invitations to Musk, as the boss of Tesla, to join a few times in the 2010s — the last being in 2015 — but he never registered or attended the annual meeting.

Musk wasn't there, though he says he was invited. Forum spokesman Yann Zopf knocked that down Tuesday, Jan. 15, saying the last time the Tesla CEO got an invitation was “not this year and not recently — last time in 2015.”

Musk said in a tweet Dec. 22: “My reason for declining the Davos invitation was not because I thought they were engaged in diabolical scheming, but because it sounded boring af lol."

Organizers did extend invitations to Musk, as the boss of Tesla, to join a few times in the 2010s — the last being in 2015 — but he never registered or attended the annual meeting, Zopf said.

The gathering has been criticized for a lack of concrete action that emerges after a series of sessions and speeches, while the forum itself has been the target of online conspiracy theories from those who believe the meeting involves a group of elites manipulating global events for their own benefit.

Multibillionaire Musk, one of the world’s richest people, can certainly afford to attend Davos. Forum members pay between 120,000 to 850,000 Swiss francs ($130,000 to $921,000) for annual memberships depending on the level of affiliation they want.

While still grappling with the fallout from buying Twitter last year for $44 billion, Musk is facing trial over his tweet about taking Tesla private in 2018.

Jury selection begins this week and he'll have to explain his actions under oath in court in San Francisco after tweeting that he had lined up the financing to pay for a $72 billion buyout of the electric carmaker, which never happened.

It culminated in a $40 million settlement with US securities regulators that also required him to step down as the company’s chairman.

He's also planning to step down as CEO but remain owner of Twitter, which he succeeded in taking private last summer but has alienated some users and advertisers with chaotic job cuts and changes to content moderation policies.

Musk was not a founder of Tesla, joining in only six months after the company was established.

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