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Stories talking about how Elon Musk is making fun of whistleblowers by selling a whistle. Including details and/or links to the actual whistleblowers stories.
by sailingparrot 5y ago
Stories talking about how Elon Musk is making fun of whistleblowers by selling a whistle. Including details and/or links to the actual whistleblowers stories.
That's not exactly burying anything, more like promoting.
Burying would be if you were to search for "tesla whistleblowers" on Google and Google just giving you links to the whistle product, not allowing you to find the information you are looking for.
But that's not how Google, or any other major search engine, works, or has worked for a very long time.
So saying that's why Tesla/Elon are doing it, is quite simply false.
- tyingq 5y agoSure, I can't say why they are doing it, but it has taken up 3 slots in probably the most common query. A reputation management company would be really happy with that result. They wouldn't expect one theme to fix it all.
- Pyramus 5y agoYou underestimate the power of a false balance, and in a way, Elon Musk. When searching about "whistleblowing tesla" (or "whistle blowing tesla"!) there should be zero stories about the Tesla whistle. You turn facts that are 100% negative (Tesla has a big whistleblowing problem) into something that's 30% positive (or neutral). That's a PR win on a massive, almost unheard of scale. Just imagine the VW CEO doing a stunt like this to soften Dieselgate ...