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Nov 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
.@elonmusk tells Joe Rogan that he knew COVID was nbd bc nothing happened to Tesla's 20K employees in China.
He does not mention that he shut down Tesla's factory exactly like Beijing told him to.
Elon shut down the Shanghai plant in December. reuters.com/business/autos…
Jan 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Back in 2016, Tesla made a video pumping its self-driving product but an engineer recently testified that that video was staged. reuters.com/technology/tes…
Staging the functionality of a product that does not work is classic @elonmusk . He also did it with a solar roof product in 2016 — an effort to keep SolarCity from going bankrupt. businessinsider.com/listen-the-fut…
Dec 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@elonmusk has always been vicious to anyone sharing info about his businesses. He once sued a source of mine for revealing shady practices at #Tesla, and security testified that Musk had his lackeys hack my source's personal devices.
They even looked at pictures of my source's kids, according to one deposition.
Nov 8, 2022 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
How do I know so much about how @elonmusk does things? I spent 3 years investigating Tesla at @BusinessInsider from 2018-2021. Here are some of sloppy, dangerous, callous, things I learned:
Tesla put batteries with potentially defective cooling systems in people's cars. And they knew about it. businessinsider.com/tesla-faulty-b…