According to online reports, Tesla CEO Elon Musk continued to publish angry articles on the Wall Street Journal, saying that it was "damaging the reputation of journalism" and that "The Wall Street Journal published an article that was deliberately false and did not include Tesla's board of directors previously explicitly denied that this was an extremely serious violation of professional ethics!" Earlier, the Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Tesla's board of directors began to seriously consider finding Musk's successor due to the decline in the share price of U.S. automaker Tesla and some investors 'dissatisfaction with the company's CEO Elon Musk's attention to the White House. Later, Tesla clarified that Tesla Chairman Robyn Denholm said media reports that the board had contacted the headhunting company to find a new CEO were "completely untrue."