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You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk (defector.com)

submitted 11 months ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 70 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This is a spam blog. The real report is here:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 72 points 10 months ago

Did you read it? It's an opinion piece that references the Reuters report, and several articles, and is an absolute BLAST to read.

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How on earth did you reach the conclusion the blog is spam?!

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They couldn't even be bothered to replace the default WordPress favicon

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

One would expect a spam blog to at least serve ads? Seems like a lot of effort to write an entire editorial without even so much as a revenue stream.

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 8 points 10 months ago

If you just go to any of the actual information pages about the blog, you'll very quickly see it's a genuine thing.

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

Respectfully, Defector is about the furthest thing from a spam blog that you'll find on the internet, my dude/lady.

It was formed a few years back by writers fleeing the sinking ship that was Deadspin.

I'd encourage you to check out some of their other articles and judge for yourself.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

It pretty clearly states in the first paragraph that it’s a blog. It’s okay to post blogs. Moreover, the author specifically encourages reading the quoted Reuters report:

The Reuters piece is quite long, and earns its length with an incredible wealth of damning receipts, including internal Tesla communications making clear that the company has known about its own shoddy work for a long time, even as it deceived investors, regulators, and drivers. I urge you to read it for yourself.