Tesla wins “Closed Oyster” award for dealing with the media

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Tesla wins “Closed Oyster” award for bad handling of media

“Tesla has been known among reporters for years for actively and aggressively obstructing research and reporting,” the network says. In the US, Tesla has even closed its press department.

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In 2022, the Network Recherche journalists’ association once again awarded the negative “Closed Oyster” prize. This year, the disgraceful prize goes to the car manufacturer Tesla.

The car manufacturer Tesla has been awarded the negative “Closed Auster” prize by the Netzwerk Recherche journalists’ association. The reason given by the association on Saturday was “Tesla’s non-transparent behavior towards the media and the public”. Examples of this are the prevention of reporting through the selective selection of reporters and the non-answering of press inquiries, it said in a statement. The company did not comment on this to the German Press Agency.

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“Elon Musk and Tesla seem to have absolutely no respect for critical public discourse”

“Tesla has been known among reporters for years for actively and aggressively obstructing research and reporting. Elon Musk himself has repeatedly threatened journalists in the past, regularly spreads false news and manipulates the media for his personal financial interests,” says Daniel Drepper, chairman from network research. And further: “Elon Musk and Tesla apparently have no respect for a critical public discourse. For Musk and Tesla, the press seems to be the enemy. This attitude becomes more relevant the more influential Musk and Tesla become.”

At the award ceremony in Hamburg, which was broadcast live, there was no reaction to an invitation from the journalists’ association to Tesla to accept the award and to give a speech of thanks or counter-speech.

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Elon Musk was born in Pretoria in 1971 to model Maye Musk and mechanical engineer Errol Musk. The parents divorce early. Elon Musk is an introverted child and subject to bullying. At the age of ten he taught himself how to program, and just two years later he sold the first computer game he had developed for $500. At the age of 17 he emigrated to Canada, where his mother originally came from, to avoid military service in South Africa. Soon after, he goes to the USA, where he studies physics and economics at the University of Philadelphia. Elon Musk’s mother, Maye, shared the photo from the sandbox on Twitter and jokingly wrote: “Three-year-old Elon Musk: ‘I can build a truck that’s better than this one.'”

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In March, Tesla opened a factory in Grünheide near Berlin, which has been producing electric cars ever since. Tesla has dissolved its press department in the USA. Company boss Elon Musk is known for posting messages to the public on Twitter. Since 2002, the Recherche network has been awarding the Negative Prize to people and institutions. Previous winners have included ADAC, the Catholic Church, Facebook, Aldi, Fifa, the Bavarian state government and Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin.

Sources: network research

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