[wnorris]

There appears to be an active group working to create these stories in order to create a 'whistleblower hell'.

Elon occasionally does not help this, but authorities should look into the allegations that a group is actively manipulating Tesla employees for these types of stories.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/21/were-cnbc-sources-tesla...

[kreetx]

Elon gets a lot of hate unfortunately due to his position in the industry, and also I guess the age we're in.

See this tweet from Paul Graham for example https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122987659079618563

People notice the hate, and although there most probably are issues in the factories, then the reporting of them is way bent to the negative.

[P_I_Staker]

I don't know what you're talking about, Elon Musk gets flack for being a jerk, and all the questionable stuff he's done. This narrative that big business is out to get him (eg. that tweet) needs to die.

[AndrewBissell]

Actually the criticism that Musk gets is a result of things like:

- Calling someone's boss and threatening a lawsuit to make him take down critical writings on Twitter and Seeking Alpha (https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/07/27/1532692760000/Je-suis...)

- Threatening to "nuke" a departing employee who had returned to Tesla HQ to collect some personal belongings (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/tesla-boa...)

- Trumpian attacks on the press, including by riling up his fans on Twitter (https://twitter.com/lopezlinette/status/1014983757252780033)

- Lying with statistics, e.g. "traffic incidents are xx% less likely with Autopilot engaged" or "Tesla cars are xx% safer than the overall U.S. fleet" without mentioning the huge selection bias at play

- Running factories with tons of environmental, health, labor, and QA-related problems, then attempting to just gaslight his way through the criticism (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/tesla-workers-in-ga4-tent-de...)

- Brazenly lying about his company on Twitter in an attempt to manipulate the stock price (https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-2...)

[unityByFreedom]

Elon gets himself into it. He wants to be the center of attention (Thailand, pedo, 420). Creating a profitable business comes second to his need to be seen as a tech luminary.

[eaton]

That is the tweet of a man who slept through 2014.

[timavr]

Did Paul Graham write an algorithm which crawls twitter and counts all this robo haters?

The bigger reason is that Tesla really put themselves out there and now negative stories getting a lot of views.

[unityByFreedom]

That's not an objective source.

Clean Technica is to Elon Musk as Fox News is to Donald Trump