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Comment by ToFab123 | Hacker News Reader

After reading this, I no longer want a Tesla.

Then you better throw out most of your clothing, your smartphone, and a bunch of other things you own.

Here's a response horseRad posted an hour after your comment here that comes from Tesla's side - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18389796 - and that is from https://electrek.co/2018/11/06/tesla-fremont-factory-clinic-...

I find it somewhat amusing that you're trying to discredit a report by one of the premiere institutions of investigative journalism using a blog post on a site ran by a self-admitted Tesla fanboy. That's even setting aside the monetary conflicts of interest created by the fact that Tesla pays Lambert for shilling their cars.

> report by one of the premiere institutions of investigative journalism

We are talking about the same place that claimed that Tesla factory did not have yellow safety tape because "Elon hates the color yellow". The factory did have the yellow-black safety tape around all dangerous machinery, and still does today. This is an organization that publishes literal fake news.

There‘s a huge difference between getting something wrong in an article and "fake news". Could we please at least try to have nuanced discussions around this topic or news in general?

They didn't get a small detail wrong, they published an entire article based on a completely fabricated news story. What would you call that?

Well here we go. That‘s not even remotely true. And even if they did, what you somehow think the did, why didn't Tesla sue for libel? You know that there‘s a huge legal risk for Reveal, which means that an army of lawyer is waterproofing every single sentence of such reports? Reveal has literally nothing to win by fabricating a report of this magnitude. They‘re one of the most prestigious investigativ non-profits in the US. So no.

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