You can't eliminate the department meant to answer media queries and then cry that they don't tell your side. He chose to remove the PR department.
> 1) purposely mischarachterize you and your work
That seems to have gone in Musk's favor more than not. Most people think Tesla makes their own batteries (they don't), their cars drive themselves (they don't), they have advanced manufacturing (by every metric they are terribly inefficient and after all the talk of air friction and alien dreadnoughts their model 3 ramp was pure incompetence compared to how other car companies just turn their lines on once validation is done). Musk's lies have been uncritically reported for years.
Honestly, even look at HN articles:
The 2nd highest Tesla article is "All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware" from FIVE YEARS AGO...
The top one is "Tesla Cybertruck" - from two years ago.
Third highest - Tesla Roadster - 4 years ago
6th - Tesla Semi - 4 years ago
None of those exist for public sale, all of them got reported and mass upvoted by an uncritical audience. If you fall for Musk's victim complex you're a sucker IMO.