Naive. How about short sellers spreading fake news (or blowing news out of proportion) to suppress the price of your stock?

It seems a bit silly to bash shorts for "spreading fake news" in defense of a CEO that settled with the SEC for demonstrably spreading fake news to combat shorts he perceives as persecuting his company.

I disagree, it was of the same nature and tone.

two wrongs don't make a right, or so the saying goes

Where's the -evidence-, as opposed to theories, that short sellers are actively and illegally manipulating the stock price with demonstrably false statements?

False statements like "I've secured funding to take Tesla private", for example...

I haven't seen much evidence the shorts have committed a wrong.

Short sellers keep prices in check and offer a healthy degree of scepticism. Also, short squeezes are plenty of fun when you're on the long side.

Your proposition might have legs, but I don't think the parent post was malicious enough to deserve prefacing your reply with such a curt criticism.