> When a spaceX rocket blew up, he claimed sabotage.
That is false. All they said was that they were looking at all option, he mentioned sabotage as an offhand example of what they were investigating and he explicitly said in that very first comment that they had no evidence.
After that the press and twitter got hold of it and blew up story.
SpaceX insisted again there was no sabotage and announced that the problem was about COPV tanks.
It was absolutely the initial implication. Musk bent over backwards to downplay that possibility of sabotage at the very first news conference. He also tweeted that it was unlikely and publicly joked about it: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/783567161402888192
That is false. All they said was that they were looking at all option, he mentioned sabotage as an offhand example of what they were investigating and he explicitly said in that very first comment that they had no evidence.
After that the press and twitter got hold of it and blew up story.
SpaceX insisted again there was no sabotage and announced that the problem was about COPV tanks.