[rsynnott]

> They've been hunting down any and every disgruntled ex-employee they can looking for dirt

The cheek! What do they think they are, investigative journalists?!

> and they have no appetite for any positive stories.

That's Tesla's PR department's job, or would be, if it still had one. The broader news media does not generally prioritise praising companies to the heavens.

Seriously, this is all completely normal. There's no market for repeating what a company says publicly; most writing about companies is at least sceptical, and sometimes adversarial.

[AlchemistCamp]

> The cheek! What do they think they are, investigative journalists?!

As ridiculous as it is, they probably do think of themselves that way.

It's too bad they gave up on truth-seeking and gravitated towards tabloid drama and reputational attack. There's a huge void when it comes to high-quality reporting on tech entrepreneurs. Sadly, it really does tend to either be hit pieces or press releases with little in between.

[rideontime]

You keep implying that they're not telling the truth. Can you provide evidence of that?

[AlchemistCamp]

I wouldn't say they're telling outright lies, but I also don't believe that truth-seeking is a primary goal for them. They have a big axe to grind and that their coverage of tech companies is of poor quality, IMO.

One example completely unrelated to Twitter, that I saw as a sign of shockingly poor research, was when the founder went on the Big Technology Podcast and spoke at length about "John Carmichael" and VR work at Meta. It's hard to believe that anyone actually in the software world, especially someone talking about VR with such confidence wouldn't be familiar enough with John Carmack to get his name right.

[rideontime]

So you pretty much just don't like their vibe?

[lolc]

I for one welcome the entertaining reporting on some rich boy's narcissist meltdown. There's room for that no?