What's going on: - Tesla's stock is astronomically high, garnering mainstream attention, shorters, and momentum investors that want to manipulate the media -

What's going on: - Tesla's stock is astronomically high, garnering mainstream attention, shorters, and momentum investors that want to manipulate the media - Tesla headlines garner massive click rates and are essentially what keeps a large number of web sites' lights on, so web sites up the dramatics on any Tesla story - Elon Musk is polarizing, generating a lot of drama - very big entrenched interests are very very threatened by Tesla and EV/batteries/green power, so they have an incentive to astroturf and overdramatize negative stories - Tesla has quality issues from pushing deliveries and production too far over the quality threshold, giving plenty of fodder to the astroturfers Seriously, look at the brigade downvoting going on in the comments on this story. It is very unusual, where comments with outright cursing and expletives are untouched, but pro-Tesla responses with linked articles are being massively downvoted.