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Comment by deepGem | Hacker News Reader

Personal view again. I aM convinced that the shorts are behind these media smear campaigns. Scumbags are guaranteed to lose their bets and they are doing their best to minimise damage. They don’t care abou innovation or climate change. All thy care is about their fucking money. Sorry about the rant and yes I am long TSLA. I have had enough illogical Twitter spats with some noted shorts to come to this conclusion.

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This is fanciful. No short seller held a gun to Musk's head and told him to call people pedophiles, tweet about funding he never had, smoke weed on some idiot's podcast or have the personal life of a hip hop artist.

Also just because they're innovative and are solving climate change doesn't mean we all just have to look away all the time.

True and I don’t claim that musk is right always. He is human, makes mistakes, that doesn’t mean he is a criminal, which is what the shorts are implying with these smear campaigns.

It's not just shorts - We know that the Koch Brothers (as much as a boogyman as they normally are) are behind several PR campaigns, we know that Boeing has funded a set of campaigns that attacked Tesla. I remember when Falcon 9H launched, there a coordinate effort to bad-mouth SpaceX, because launching a Rocket with a car was "wasteful"....

You kick over a hornets nest, you better have a lot of raid on hand.

That said, the NYT has been consistently brutal to Tesla and SpaceX. Part of it is that they leave themselves open. They are being candidly honest and aggressive, and don't always make their goals..

But they shoot for the moon. If they miss, at least they make orbit, as opposed to plummeting back down to the ground.

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