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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by TeMPOraL on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:47AM (#43068432)
Tesla is not in advertising business, though. They are affected by the whims of public opinion, but not as much, as they're established company selling a quality product worldwide.

Musk used to dabble much more in Tesla directly than he's now, I wonder whether the ups and downs of the company correlate with his involvement, especially before he started going off the rails so badly? That would be informative and help separate object-level impact from political hysteria.

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by LunaSea on Sunday February 16, 2025 @03:10PM (#43071216)
> Tesla is not in advertising business, though.

Tesla is absolutely in the advertisement business.

Their marketing and image is the only thing holding the company up (for now).

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by TeMPOraL on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:25PM (#43071862)
What I meant is: they buy ads and care about their opinion. They're not a platform selling ads, and they're not an ad delivery vector (like e.g. publishers) either. The latter two kinds of businesses have particular dynamics that are highly sensitive to public opinion, much more so than for any other kind of business.
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