Because anti-Elon thinking is a thing that really seems to impact the judgement of some people and this kind of news really gets them to engage

root_axis a day ago | parent | next [-]

The "anti-Elon thinking" comes from the things Elon says and does.

Like?

	▲	root_axis 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Inflammatory partisan and identity politics activism. Directly interfering in the u.s. government A consistent pattern of grandiose over-promising and under-delivering in his products (FSD, robotaxis, electric-semi, boring company etc) and plenty more

small_model a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Bingo, hacker news has this tendency hence this is on the front page.