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Zach Mider and Dana Hull just got played. They were incredibly close to the real story, but managed to avoid writing it. The real story is that Omar Qazi has Elon Musk's enthusiastic support (noted by Bloomberg) because Omar is the patsy. The front man. The fall guy.
We already knew that Autopilot will inevitably avoid some casualties. And both Zach and Dana already knew—and were warned repeatedly—that Omar Qazi was highly unreliable as a source. But Bloomberg plowed ahead with a piece awfully close to corporate propaganda. That's a shame.
We've known since January 14, 2019 that Omar Qazi was behind the infamous @tesla_truth Twitter account, which to date has pumped out about 38,800 tweets defending a sociopathic billionaire and his various enterprises,—but mostly $TSLA.
Elon and his comms team could not have been more pleased that we figured this out, as it solved a problem. An SEC problem, which forbade Musk from using Twitter to comment on material aspects of Tesla's business. An SEC problem that already saw him dragged back to court once.
Now, multiple people could use the @tesla_truth account while Omar Qazi, an unaffiliated relative nobody car enthusiast and very public happy customer, got all of the credit and blame. Multiple people, including someone named Jim.
@tesla_truth How do we know? Omar said so. We received these direct messages involving Omar some time ago. In them, he admits to making a harassing call to PlainSite founder @AaronGreenspan three days after PlainSite revealed his identity. He also admits that "Steve Jobs" is sometimes "Jim."
@tesla_truth @AaronGreenspan Who is Jim? One name appears prominently in e-mail threads as a PR crisis unfolded in Thailand: SpaceX Director of Communications James Gleeson. We don't know if "Jim" has access to the @tesla_truth account, or if several of Musk's PR employees do, but it posts non-stop.
If you'd like to comment as to whether or not you've ever had access to the @tesla_truth account @gleesonjm, we'd love to hear. If not, we'd like to know who Jim actually is. If so, we'd like to know how that isn't another violation of the SEC consent decree signed by Elon Musk.
The @tesla_truth account *frequently* discusses $TSLA stock, production figures, and other material aspects of Tesla's business. It interacts regularly with the @ElonMusk account. And it never stops talking. Omar Qazi is not nearly diligent enough to run such an operation alone.
As for Gleeson, he says it himself. His job is to always be "pushing E's latest tweets." The question is: from how many accounts? And if not ones with clear disclosures, in violation of how many laws and regulations?
There would obviously be violations of securities law. But beyond that, there would be violations of libel law, as the @tesla_truth account has gratuitously libeled numerous critics of Elon Musk. It spent the day yesterday misinterpreting quotes from @AaronGreenspan's book.
This is a strategic blunder by Musk's staff to the extent they are involved (and whoever Jim is, they do appear to be involved). Because a simple libel suit by @AaronGreenspan against @OmarQazi could then bring the whole "pyramid" crashing down.
If this is all wrong, $TSLA PR can come out and simply affirm that no employee of any Musk company has ever, at any point, had any access whatsoever to the @tesla_truth account. It will be hard to believe, but they can do that. Let's see if they do with @SEC_Enforcement watching.
And One More Thing: attempting to equate Elon Musk with Steve Jobs in the first place is an obvious PR spin move, and not likely one conceived of by Omar Qazi. It is far more plausible that this entire scheme was hatched in its original form by one of Musk's paid PR shops.
Elon Musk, his companies, and Omar Qazi are officially on notice that they should preserve evidence because a libel case may be coming their way. Elon Musk responded with more libel, which was then immediately posted publicly by Omar Qazi, who then encouraged further harassment.
The Regional Director of the San Francisco office of @SF_SEC was CCed on all of these messages.
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