Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is considering suing media outlets over the way they covered the Cybertruck explosion that happened in front of the Trump Las Vegas hotel on Wednesday.

In a post on Musk’s social platform X, conservative activist Robby Starbuck urged the tech billionaire to consider taking legal action against outlets that framed the story as a vehicle malfunction. He included a screenshot of a Business Insider headline that detailed the incident.

“These headlines are sabotaging @Tesla’s brand by making people think it caught on fire,” Starbuck wrote. “There’s about 1 Tesla fire for every 130 million miles traveled. Other cars have 1 every 18 million miles.”

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