Come for the video of a Tesla Robotaxi driving double the speed limit and hitting speed bumps like they are Mario Kart ramps…
… But stay for the conversation about social media silos and corporate disinformation campaigns!
The source is a fake website with the only articles being about criticizing Tesla. I am not a fan of Tesla or Musk, to say the least, but this is no better than X’s propaganda…
“the source is a fake website…”
Well, no, it’s a real website. You really visited it, you didn’t hallucinate that.
“… with the only articles being about criticizing Tesla”
I’m the automotive equivalent of a muckraker, so yeah, Tesla does enough weird stuff that I talk about them a lot. They’re hardly the ONLY news I cover.
Take this article, for instance, it was on the front page of Hacker News for a couple days, got decent circulation in European automotive magazines, too: https://fuelarc.com/tech/pop-up-ads-in-your-jeep-the-latest-stellantis-innovation/
Believe what you like, but the videos in that article are just videos, it’s not like those aren’t first-hand driving footage just because you dislike where you found them.
Pretty bold claim. Who can we trust in this scenario? How do we trust you?
Well you can check the site yourself, that ain’t too hard to do
I did, and now I did again. I don’t see/understand any clues to it being a “fake website” after browsing around and looking at various pages and articles. 🤷♂️ Can somebody help me understand? (Besides the condescending “just look at it”, thanks!)
I just read on the article about how all the “tesla influencers” are refusing to comment on news media and instead insisting they only talk about it on Twitter.
Couldn’t be more manufactured consent if they tried.
That part really pissed me off.
I think folks see it for what it is. Sales are cratering, public spaces that are not twitter are increasingly intolerant of the Tesla fanboys glazing the supposed tech advantage ( that we can see with our own eyes is not real )
Looking forward to the headlines: “Tesla Robotaxi passengers need medical attention after Robotaxi hits speed bump at 70mph”
The sad thing is these things will probably not be taken of the road until a few dozen people have been run over.
And these greedy, unscrupulous, technofascist enabling influencers promoted it. This is our current normal apparently.I hate mainstream internet culture with a passion.
Guy in a Dogecoin t-shirt and a neckbrace: “i-i-it was r-r-really great.”
I read that in RFK Jr.'s voice
Is he the one that sounds like he smokes 30 packs a day?
Yeah but he has a disease that makes him sound like that. If he weren’t such a terrible human being I would feel bad about making fun of him.
I don’t think he and Alex Jones sound exactly the same.
I don’t think Alex Jones has a disease that affects his voice, I think he just yells about psychic vampires so often that’s just what his voice has turned into.
We live in the dumbest timeline.
