Elon Musk's war with short sellers took a bizarre turn Friday when Tesla obtained a temporary restraining order against a man it said was stalking its Fremont factory and harassing employees.
is already falling apart. You know it. You choked, and did the fake funding-secured tweet. This is why capitalists like you are reviled. Tic tockTesla claimed it was able to identify the alleged harasser as Randeep Hothi from the license plate of the vehicle he drove — and that it also traced Hothi to the Twitter account he allegedly shares with his brother that frequently tweets with the hashtag “$TSLAQ" in solidarity with others who want to see the company fail.
Hothi didn’t immediately respond Saturday to a request for comment. A legal defense fund set up for Hothi garnered $23,578 in contributions from 87 people in one hour, surpassing its goal of $20,000. A former assembly-line worker at Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory whom the company identified as leaking disparaging information to the media was accused by Musk of engaging in “extensive and damaging sabotage,” and Tesla’s public relations department allegedlyIn an earlier episode, Tesla sued an executive for an oil industry company whom it accused of impersonating Musk in an email to get nonpublic data about the automaker. That case ended with a confidential settlement.
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