From The Guardian's website https://www.theguardian.com/info/2016/jan/25/content-funding "- A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to support the Guardian’s Cities project"

If I were to suggest that the article was written in bad faith, I'd be more willing to link it to Elon's recent agitation of media figures on Twitter.

Carroll doesn't seem to have written much of anything about Elon or his projects in the past couple years, but starting in June, he's penned this, and two other articles on the man.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/04/elon-musk... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/10/a-great-i...