Tesla sales in Québec plunged 85% in the first quarter, mirroring sharp declines seen in Europe.
Canada has frozen $43 million in Tesla EV rebates due to Trump’s tariffs and fraud concerns.
Musk’s DOGE work sparked backlash, boycotts, and dealership vandalism across the US and Europe.
Reminder:
I have a feeling that people will downvote you, because on the surface it SOUNDS like you’re defending tesla.
However, I’d like to point out AI doesn’t give a shit about accuracy or context, or being right.
AI can reaffirm your already held beliefs, and still be bad for doing so. Because if you let yourself be led by self reaffirming beliefs, how is it any different than people who watch fox news and say “Yeah! All the people I already hate ARE the source of my problems! Even the TV says so!”
If NPR or BBC or any other news outlet just started reporting “trump bad! Other people good!” but it was based on an AI overview that viewers leaned a certain way, and therefore would be profitable to slant news that way, then you aren’t getting news. You’re getting artificial opinion pieces written by a computer.
Now, that being said, even human news outlets slant their stories. So the issue isn’t exclusively with AI. Real journalism is dead and has been dead for decades.
The point I’m making is, just because the story says “tesla bad!” and we all hate tesla, doesn’t make this story legitimate journalism. Even if the story and facts presented are true.
And I think most people will not grasp that concept, and downvote you.
They have zero downvotes right now and I think journalism is still alive.
There’s BBC, CBC, PBS, NPR and John Oliver who all still do amazing work and that’s just scratching the surface.
PBS and NPR rely on American federal funding, so I don’t expect them to last.
PBS is 15% of its funding and NPR is under 1% federally funded if I recall correctly so there will be some changes but they will survive.
Here’s hoping!