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He is not a whistleblower. Shame on Bloomberg for tainting the word. And he destryoed himself, any company would have thrown the book at any employee who did what he did.

He purposely leaked negative and false information of no material consequence to Linet Lopez, one of the top FUD reporters on Tesla at the time. Look up her articles over 2014 - 2017. Her full time job at the time was to trash the Tesla brand.

The "I'm not smart enough to sabotage assembly systems" remark was also proven false. His github and stackoverflow accounts were found and show his as a capable coder who would have had no trouble at all modifying the production systems he sabotaged.

He very quickly deleted both as soon as this came but the posts still exist today.

His trial is ongoing:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7244147/tesla-inc-v-tri...

I suspect this article will not age well. Either way it will serve its purpose as a hit piece before Model Y announcement.




In what way is what he leaked “false”? Are the Tesla documents and VINS false? Isn’t Tesla’s report to the police objectively more false?

Should we really allow Tesla to get away clean after their report to the police while Jessie Smollett faces felonies?


Stating Tesla lied about production numbers.

Stating Tesla shipped battery packs with punctured cells.

Stating he does not know how to code to sabotage assembly line.

Stating the waste rate at Gigafactory was abnormally high.

Stating he didnt try to frame a fellow employee.

The case will reveal more I'm sure, these are not hard things to prove.




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