Musk has been laser-focused on Twitter lately after he bought the company for $44 billion. Another company that he owns is right now in the news for all the wrong reasons.
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His chip company Neuralink is under federal investigation for concerns about animal abuse by the US Department of Agriculture.
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Several former and current employees of the company, 20 to be precise, have revealed that Musk’s iron-fist work environment has caused workers to cut corners and rush through everything.
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This led to rushed work and errors while testing and resulted in several animal suffering and deaths.
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Around 1,500 animals, including pigs, monkeys, and sheep, have been killed during Neuralink testing since 2018.
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Over the past few years, the brain chip company made several errors while testing on animals. It involves putting the wrong surgical glue or the wrong-size brain chip.
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All this caused scientists to have to kill those animals and start experiments all over again. Employees said Musk pressured them to work faster which caused these errors.