Accelerator: Tech companies and their sound of silence
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Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, speaks at the Washington Convention Center March 9, 2020, in Washington, DC. Tesla apparently dissolved its public relations department in October. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI /AFP via Getty Images
In a Veterans Day opinion column, I criticized the Defense Department’s slide toward opaqueness over the past few years.
When the piece appeared, a general I had worked for in Air Force public relations said he wanted to remind me of the DOD’s Principles of Information and the doctrine of “maximum disclosure, minimum delay.”