Linette Lopez
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Senior Correspondent @businessinsider. 🇩🇴 On Threads with the same handle.
New York
Joined January 2009
How do I know so much about how @elonmusk does things? I spent 3 years investigating Tesla at @BusinessInsider from 2018-2021. Here are some of sloppy, dangerous, callous, things I learned:
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Instead of telling their readers who to vote for, newspaper should focus on their original goal of securing defense contracts for Amazon.
new: Washington Post publisher Will Lewis explains why The Post won’t be endorsing for president:
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When we began reporting on Nicole Shanahan, she offered us $500,000 to be “whistleblowers” and share our sources. We declined — but kept reporting our profile. W @lizzadwoskin, @MerylKornfield + @aaronjschaffer:
washingtonpost.com
With a massive divorce settlement from Google’s Sergey Brin, the former Democrat is remaking herself as a pro-Trump ‘Make America Healthy Again’ wellness guru.
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Nothing about how a Russian warlord got a cybertruck. But @elonmusk has been selling the cyber truck guys a bunch of new full self-driving software that is neither full nor self-driving. Cha-ching.
6 interesting things Elon Musk said about the Cybercab during Tesla's earnings call
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Wonder if this guy who scammed @elonmusk knows Putin.
nypost.com
A Russian-born, former professional poker player who won a total of $18 million gambling despite being a confessed pothead was once tasked with overseeing charitable donations totaling billions of...
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Maybe Putin said to @elonmusk, "nice aluminum you got there, shame if anything happened to it." Reporting from @lorakolodny
cnbc.com
Like other large automakers, Tesla has supply chain ties in Russia -- specifically, it's been buying aluminum from Rusal since 2020.
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.@elonmusk hosts Tucker who hosts Putin who says nice things about Elon in a great big money circle of jerks. https://t.co/GgkXiVyfgm
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Early in my career, I taught a class @columbiajourn about RT's malign influence and now look at all these jerks bonded by the Kremlin @elonmusk
newsweek.com
The Canadian prime minister said under oath that the conservative pundit is funded by a Russian state-owned media outlet.
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.@elonmusk learned that you don't get to be a Putin apologist without being a Xi apologist too. Comes with the dinner. https://t.co/GgkXiVyfgm
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I wonder how Putin threatened @elonmusk? "Nice xyz over there, shame if anything happened to it/found out about it. https://t.co/GgkXiVyfgm
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Is this @elonmusk's money or Putin's money?
wsj.com
Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.
NEWS — Elon Musk put it another $43.6 million into his super PAC, @America, in the first 16 days of October. He has now put in a staggering $119 million into his pro-Trump super PAC. Nelson Peltz put in $1 million, and the DeVos family gave $2 million.
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Oh yeah, and all the drugs @elonmusk does probably don't help.
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Like Trump, @elonmusk made an unsuccessful business trip to Moscow early in his career, from the Kremlin kept tabs on him from then. He's got a lot of debt and weird relationships with women. Not a hard guy to find some #kompromat on.
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Russians aren't supposed to have @starlink but they have it. And I'll never get over this stupid thing.
cnn.com
According to Reuters, Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, posted a video of himself driving a Tesla Cybertruck with what appears to be a machine gun mounted onto it on...
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.@wsj reports Elon and Putin talk a lot. How much of the $$ @elonmusk has spent on Trump's campaign came from the Kremlin? I also wonder which carrots and sticks Putin used on him. I no longer wonder how a terrorist/warlord got a cybertruck.
wsj.com
Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.
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My entire Twitter feed is Elon Musk commenting "This is crazy" and quote tweeting something that a fourth-grader should be able to tell is made up.
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