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Comment by tomrod | Hacker News Reader

LOL!!! How thin Elon's skin must be. To staunch competition, his team bans people rather than produce a better product. Has he always been a bully in business, or is this recent?

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The writing has been on the wall for years. He swatted a journalist for being critical of Tesla. At this point anyone that still supports him is willingly looking away.

Edit: he swatted a whistleblower, not a journalist

Do you have a source for this? Elon’s recent treatment of journalists is mostly what comes back when I try to search for it.

Try setting the timeframe to search up to a few weeks ago.

Maybe this one? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/03/elon-musk...

I think not a journalist, but a journalist's source [1].

I think the facts are something like:

- Martin Tripp, a Tesla employee working at the Gigafactory, leaked to a journalist that Tesla was wasting a large amount of raw material when making batteries

- Tesla identified that the leak came from Tripp and fired him

- Musk told the local sheriff and The Guardian that they had been tipped off that Tripp intended to come in and shoot up the factory

- Tripp disputes that he wanted to shoot up the factory

- Tripp was visited by police

- There was a civil lawsuit from each side, Tripp ended up having to pay $400K for leaking his employer's corporate trade secrets

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/21/tesla-whi...

Thanks for the source!

I misremembered who actually got swatted.

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