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Elon Muskʼs Long Obsession With Sabotage - The Atlantic 29/3/19, 11(53 pm
“I cannot conscientiously be a
bystander anymore and allow
my company to deceive the
public and defraud our dear
customers,” the employee
wrote. “Our customers and the
general public are the reason
Tesla is so loved. The fact that
they are being lied to is just
wrong.”
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Elon Muskʼs Long Obsession With Sabotage - The Atlantic 29/3/19, 11(53 pm
In moments of perceived
nefariousness, Musk usually
asks his employees for their
attentiveness for future threats.
He did the same this week.
“Please be extremely vigilant,
particularly over the next few
weeks as we ramp up the
production rate to 5k/week,”
he wrote in the email to his
employees. “This is when
outside forces have the
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