But he lied when he said "funding secured" and when he accused the diving expert of being pedophile. That was unacceptable behaviour. And he deserves to be criticised for it. However, Elon Musk needs to be judged in shades of grey - not in black and white as it is so common.
this is text book case of fraud and exactly why we have government bodies and watchdogs making sure cases like these don't happen often.
Before that, in 2017, he told investors - "“What people should absolutely have zero concern about, and I mean 0, is that Tesla will achieve a 10,000 unit production week by the end of next year. […] I think people should really not have any concerns that we won’t reach that outcome from a production rate.”
Guess what, we are well into 2019, and they are producing around 5-6K M3 per week.
This is not how you run multi-billion company.