The last couple days I’ve noticed every post that shows Tesla not looking good, has been removed from some higher directive. Not deleted by OP.

and yesterday an OP tried at least twice to post an article about Tesla factory ordering $16,000 worth of pies from a small independently-owned Silicon Valley bakery, owned by a sweet hard-working lady who worked overtime all night and had to go out and buy more ingredients to get the order finished in time, only for Tesla to call up the next morning and cancel the order just as the pies were about to be delivered to Tesla. As of press time, that lady lost $16,000 on that order but hopefully Tesla came back and made up for it.

The OP posted that article twice because the first one had been removed, then I tried to comment on the second one and it had been removed also.

There seems to be some Tesla brigade working hard to remove everything from the internet that makes them look bad.

Edit: Update:

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    The story posted twice and removed by mods, were because he broke the rules. First he posted on c/technology when it has nothing to do with tech. Then he posted on c/news with a headline complaining that it was removed, where it’s against the rules to change the headline. So this has nothing to do with being silenced, but everything to do with not respecting the subs he posted to.
    The exact same article was posted again, but with correct headline, and has not been taken down.

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      10 months ago

      Aye, Thank you for noticing the issue and explaining. I keep wondering why my post keeps getting up votes. I was in some sort of conspiracy theory mindset when I wrote it 🤷🏻‍♀️

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        10 months ago

        This explanation is grounded but I just want to point out that over the last 4 months I have blocked several Musk subs and a couple of Tesla subs. All of which were pumping out their respective subjects as spam everyday…

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          10 months ago

          On some apps you can block specific words. Block the words “Elon” and “Musk” and you’ll never miss anything important.

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    Reason the thread complaining about the pie post being taken down was removed from this c:

    reason: Using this instant as a platform for complaints against the actions of other mods

    The top comment in that thread describes the reason it was removed originally.

    A constant stream of meta whining sucks. Doesn’t need to be some pro-Tesla conspiracy to dislike that.

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      Exactly. And this is Lemmy, the modlogs are public. People always want to believe things are a conspiracy instead of logically considering more plausible reasons.

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        You sure try modlogs are public? Some already use the name “mod” to hide their own mod profiles when doing actions and it’s trivial to setup admin actions to remove posts / comments without listing them in the modlog, while I agree it’s better than nothing it’s still up to each individual instance to decide what they give price of their admin / mod actions.

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          Can you point to a community where it’s not public? I’ve never seen one and my understanding was that was a feature of Lemmy, if not all of the fediverse

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    The pie story kept getting removed because OP was posting it to irrelevant communities.

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      If communities start to fill up with irrelevant stuff then it makes sense to start moderating it, but in all other cases I think the users should decide what is and is not appropriate for the sub. Post frequency isn’t nearly high enough on lemmy that allowing votes to sort things wouldn’t be sufficient.

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    Hear me out. Perhaps it’s a heavy handed mod or the community who is tired of Tesla posts full stop. Or Elon Musk posts, which tbh is kind of fair especially on places like the tech community. Musk does a lot of things to stay in the news cycle to stay relevant and a lot of people are fatigued about it.

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      I think that sort of thing should be decided by the community with the up/down vote buttons.

      Or if the Mods wants to implement a policy to ban certain content then that could be added to the Rules for posting. That would be fine as people that want that kind of content can create their own community for it.

      Moderation policies should be transparent and not used to veto anything that displeases a mod.

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        Lots of people in the community have complained. An even asked for a temp ban on posts about him (just him, not even his companies or their products). Moderation policies are transparent here. You can check mod logs. There are several comments on this post to that effect. Op threw out a lot of accusations.

        https://lemmy.world/comment/7882218

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    10 months ago

    Which instance are we talking about. Was this all on lenmyworld or elsewhere? Was it all in one community? Did it happen here?

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    10 months ago

    I can’t remember the last time I read a positive news story about Tesla. Maybe the mods simply just are tired of the contant spam about Elon’s every single action.

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    This is entirely subjective - I haven’t gone around counting things up - but I’ve noticed both more pro-Tesla and pro-SpaceX posts and increased arguments on the anti-Musk posts. It seemed (on lemmy) to be coming from the same small number of accounts, so it could just be an enthusiastic handful of fanboys.

    If one of them became a mod, that might explain it. They were very active in the Tesla and SpaceX subs with multiple articles posted within minutes of each other within the past couple of days.

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      Probably just fanboys. I hate playing the shill but have certainly responded to unreasonable hatred and wrong criticism. There’s plenty of criticism to go around, even if you stick to valid stuff.

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        The same thing was quite widespread with Trump aswell. Each day the guy gives new valid reasons to critizise him for but people still feel the need to come up with lies about them or what’s probably even more common; jump to conclusions the very first moment a new story is breaking and then just run with it even if it’s later proven to be false. Like the story about Elon turning off Starlink to stop Ukrainian attack on Crimea. Or when people’s twitter profiles get suspended only to then be restored few hours later.

        Being part of a hate-cult is hardly any better from being a fanboy.

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    That may be true but I’m in the market for a car right now and one thing Tesla cannot hide is how many used ones are for sale and how cheap they are compared to sticker price after a year or two.

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      I’m starting to wonder if the trolls are actually trolls that through selective breeding started to look more human like over time

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    Tesla is a massive stock pumping Ponzi scheme that just happens to have a poorly ran car company attached to it. People need to realize what the goal of Tesla marketing is really about. It will be remembered as one of the great investment scams of our time.

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    So normal internet marketing machine is working as planned?

    Makes you wonder about times you have looked at reddit for a review of an item and haven’t seen negative comments.

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      At this point we are in the situation where PR companies that are pro and against Musk are fighting eachother in public spaces in the hopes that both brainwash as many people as possible, into their narrative. Nobody can tell the truth anymore, we’re in that period now.

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    How’s that “fULL sELf dRiviNg” coming along that their valuation was supposedly based on?

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      That’s exactly the type of thing the stock market is usually good at punishing. However maybe there’s more to the stock than full self-driving, or maybe some people still hope it’s coming and yet other find the existing functionality useful