The Verge is a Vice publication. It’s the same company. If Vice goes bankrupt so does The Verge and to be frank I think more people on HN are familiar with The Verge than they are Vice.
A bias would imply that they were irrationally negative about Elon for something outside of his control. E.g., maybe they didn't like people with E names, so they were also mean about Emilio Estevez.
But I think at this point Musk has enough of a track record that people can be rationally negative about him. No journalist is obliged to obliterate their memory each day. They're allowed to remember what he's done in the past and interpret new events in light of that. Indeed, keeping better track than their readers and using that knowledge to inform is basically their job.
