Stories We Can’t Stop Thinking About: Deepfakes, the Tesla Backlash, and All Things Chips

This all culminated in the middle of February with an event called Tesla Takedown, where thousands of people all around the country descended on Tesla showrooms and protested Elon's involvement in the US government and protested Tesla ownership in general. It's not really the best time to be driving one of those cars if you're somebody who is ideologically opposed to Elon. What do you do, do you sell it? Do you sell it at whatever you can get for it because you just want it out of your life? Or do you hold onto it? I know there's a lot of people who are wrestling with that right now. Zoe Schiffer: That's really, really interesting. I'm curious if it's impacting his other companies, because Elon famously runs SpaceX, Neuralink, xAI, X. Lauren Goode: The US government. Michael Calore: The US government. Zoe Schiffer: Yeah, also that. Michael Calore: It's certainly affecting X. There's a lot of people who are like, "I'm out of here. I don't want to be a part of this guy's social net ... Read full article.