Michael — The social media drama might h...

Yep. Now have confirmation from Reuters and Business Insider as well. A screen cap claiming to be the internal email was shared on RealTesla, too. Likewise, some of the major Tesla subs have gone private.

So, good chance this informed the recent social media drama.

@niedermeyer.io

Hey, if we're taking weird online drama from the Tesla crowd as indicative of problems within the company, the main Tesla subs have "declared war" on RealTesla and setup scripts to immediately ban anyone who posts on it. That's a dramatic change.

old.reddit.com/r/SubredditD...

Mod of r/TeslaMotors and r/TeslaLounge declares war on anti-Tesla subreddit r/RealTesla, announcing "a big change" to pro-Tesla subs and banning anti-Tesla users en masse.

# *** UPDATE 4/13: WAR HAS BEGUN *** A mass-banning of all users critical of Tesla is currently underway. According to multiple reports on...

old.reddit.com

Tesla cancels some layoff separation agreements www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cancel...

Tesla tells some laid-off employees their separation agreements are canceled and new ones are on the way

Some laid-off Tesla workers received a notification that their separation agreement had been canceled.

www.businessinsider.com

Huge Tesla lols www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/...

Reddit - Dive into anything

the home of Tesla discussion for those who haven't drank the Elon-Ade

www.reddit.com

Note that Fred was *not* the confirmed Tesla employee on the main sub moderator team. That was dirtyfries.

www.reddit.com/r/teslamotor...

Note Ed had placed his time finding out a mod was an employee back in 2017, and this instance was in 2019 - so, might be multiple main sub mods were employees.

Sorry, that quote is from the Reuters article not the TechCrunch one linked above.
finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-r...

Tesla to recall 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal, NHTSA says

A trapped accelerator pedal could cause the vehicle to accelerate unintentionally, increasing the risk of a crash, the auto safety regulator said in a notice. Tesla started deliveries of its Cybertru...

finance.yahoo.com

Of course Tesla did layoff notifications by cancelling badge access.

oh I've been lurking at r/RealTesla since it started, and it's often the only Tesla subreddit I check

"Dec 19 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O) is not offering its employees yearly merit-based stock awards, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday."

www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Another day in January, another game industry layoff..

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Embracer Group Cancels ‘Deus Ex’ Video Game

The Swedish gaming company Embracer Group AB is canceling a video game in the beloved Deus Ex series after two years of development and will lay off a number of employees as part of an ongoing initiat...

www.bloomberg.com

I always kind of figured but it was still jarring to read on a tesla designer's AMA that the self-driving field tests that were using in Tesla promotions were completely faked www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/...

kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social

the drivers are dangerous *because* tesla deliberately marketed a basic level 2 driver system available in a hyundai sonata as a revolutionary “autonomous” system. it’s massive consumer fraud on a scale so large we have not yet begun to wrap our brains around it

17 May

The bad news about Tesla just keeps on rolling in. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tesla Defect Probe Escalates After Nearly 2,400 Steering Complaints

US authorities upgraded an investigation into a possible defect involving Tesla Inc.’s top-selling models after identifying almost 2,400 complaints about drivers losing steering control.

www.bloomberg.com

Judge: The Tesla Board of Directors are "supine servants of an overweening master"

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Musk Pay Judge Slams ‘Supine’ Tesla Board. Here’s Who Signed Off

The judge who rejected Elon Musk’s $55 billion Tesla Inc. compensation package likened the board that approved it to “supine servants of an overweening master” rather than independent directors ...

www.bloomberg.com

EV PickUp Sales (Tesla CyberTruck Pricing) “Quality News Links” EVPickUpSales.com by Gene Downs The Generic Strategist > Tesla sets Cybertruck starting price at $60,990 - Reuters www.reuters.com/business/aut...

So, this is what he’s spending his time on today. The day Tesla layoff news broke, and a halt on Cybertruck deliveries.

Not sure shareholders of TSLA are getting good corporate governance

Tesla and Trump Media troubles, Bitcoin halving, and Elon Musk' frenemies qz.com/tesla-layoff...

Tesla and Trump Media troubles, Bitcoin halving, noise-canceling headphones: The week's most popular stories

Plus, Elon Musk says new X users have to pay to tweet, and people are giving up on Amazon Prime Video shows because of platform problems

qz.com

22th of May: Wired published an article about a new vulnerability in Tesla UWB (Ultra-Wideband) enabled key fobs. According to the article, the research was performed by the security company GoGoByte, which informed Tesla about the issue, and the issue was known to Tesla.

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I’ve found the one *good* news media layoff story:

After Apple , Meta, Google, It’s time for Tesla to perform the rite of mass layoff.

electrek.co/2024/04/15/t...

Tesla lays off 'more than 10%' of its global workforce

The layoffs were announced in a company-wide email, after rumors they could reach as high as 20% of Tesla's ~140,000 global headcount.

electrek.co

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

tripling my holdings in tesla at this news of fat trimming and eyes on growth

Tesla Asks Which Jobs Are Critical, Stoking Layoff Fears

Tesla Inc. staff are bracing for potential job cuts after managers were asked to affirm whether each of their employees’ positions is critical.

www.bloomberg.com

Oh, RealTesla has been a dumpster fire for a long time. But the most active mod, in protest of the API changes, deleted their account, thus changing it to dumpster inferno.

It appears the motivation for the current drama is people discussing mod actions by the main Tesla subs over on RealTesla.

Over on the r/RealTesla subreddit someone points out that if you do the math Tesla has produced 144,366 more vehicles over the past two years than it has actually delivered.

Wonder where they all went!

www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/...

They didn't title the article "Mass Layoff Effect"???

"If the proposal is rejected, the CEO may make good on threats to develop products outside of Tesla."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tesla Shareholders Should Reject Musk’s Pay, Glass Lewis Says

Tesla Inc. shareholders are being urged by a major proxy advisory firm to reject a proposed $56 billion pay package for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, in a blow to the electric-vehicle maker’s boa...

www.bloomberg.com