Tesla Fanboy #13 | Media Bias Exposed 🔍

In Carwow's Model Y vs. BYD review, one moment that stood out was Mat Watson seemingly struggling with the Tesla door handle. This was particularly amusing since, three years ago, Mat bought his mother a Tesla, and they had no issues with the door handles. It raises the question: was Mat intentionally pretending to struggle with the handle? Has Carwow, and Mat in particular, developed an anti-Tesla bias? Only time will tell.

My first reply has 264 likes so far. Gary’s response has 40, despite far more views. I think that’s called a ratio. But the point is simple. I bought a five-seat Model Y because it needs to cover all my journeys, including the occasional trip with more passengers. A Cybercab only needs enough seats for the journey it’s booked for. Larger groups can book a Model Y. Private car sales don’t tell you how many people need a two-passenger taxi.

BBC ANTI-TESLA BIAS EXPOSED #11 🔍 The BBC quotes Dan O’Dowd saying Waymo is “way ahead” of Tesla. It calls him a “Tesla critic” and “software entrepreneur”. It doesn’t tell readers he founded and runs Green Hills Software, whose own customer pages describe supplying software and development tools to Toyota and Ford. The BBC explains his campaigning against Tesla, but leaves out his commercial links to other carmakers. Why not give readers that context?

BBC ANTI-MUSK BIAS EXPOSED #9 🔍 In 2024, Musk posted that “no one is even trying” to assassinate Biden or Harris. He deleted it and said it was a joke. The BBC reported it and contacted the Secret Service. Now Scott Galloway calls Musk a “traitor to the West”, invokes the execution of the Rosenbergs and says Musk should face the same standards as other traitors. I cannot find a BBC report on those remarks. If Musk’s words deserved scrutiny over political violence, why don’t Galloway’s?

BBC ANTI-TESLA BIAS EXPOSED #10 🔍 The BBC posted "Elon Musk appears to signal the end of the road for Cybertruck". When Tesla unveiled it in 2019, they wrote "Tesla's new Cybertruck smashed during demo" and "150,000 orders despite launch gaffe". When deliveries started in 2023, they asked "Will Tesla's cybertruck recover from its shattering start?" They cover the Cybertruck when the story is a smashed window or the end of the road. They do not cover it the same way when the news is good.

BBC ANTI-MUSK BIAS EXPOSED #8 🔍 The BBC posted "Shares in Musk's SpaceX plunge as tech and AI stocks fall". Their own article is called "Major tech stocks plunge". Nasdaq closed down 5.5% and AMD fell 17%. After SpaceX listed, the share headlines they choose to post are "drops", "sink", "loses trillionaire status", and now "plunge". They do not post the same way when the shares go up.

BBC ANTI-TESLA BIAS EXPOSED #9 🔍 Ford issued 152 US recalls in 2025, a record for any carmaker, covering almost 13 million vehicles. The last BBC "Ford recalls" story I can find is from 2019. Tesla had 11 recalls that year. Guess which one the BBC keeps writing about.

BBC ANTI-TESLA BIAS EXPOSED #8 🔍 October 2026, Norway: Tesla 1,548. Best October EVER, beating 2024. Model Y the best-selling car in the country. France: 47,609 so far this year. Already MORE than all of 2024. The BBC ran "Tesla sales plunge after Elon Musk backlash" in 2025. When it's good news, it's not news on the BBC.

BBC ANTI-MUSK BIAS EXPOSED #7 🔍 When Visa and Dell put money into Trump Accounts, the BBC covered it. SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell and her husband are giving over 2 MILLION of their own SpaceX shares to children aged 11 to 17 in low income areas. They land in December. Reuters covered it. CNBC covered it. The Independent covered it. The BBC? Nothing. Would it be news if it wasn't SpaceX?

MEDIA BIAS EXPOSED 🔍 Forbes writer Brad Templeton just got a Community Note. What he got wrong: • Tesla told Senator Markey remote operators only step in as a rare last resort, at 2 mph, not on normal trips. • He knew about that limit and waved it away with "others have alleged". • He wrote that regulators forced Tesla to drop the Full Self-Driving name, yet it's still sold as Full Self-Driving (Supervised). • He called Tesla the only robocar company with remote driving, then admitted Baidu has it too. • He called Tesla "a Nazi-associated brand" over a "my heart goes out to you" gesture. What he never answered: • Where's the correction he promised if I found a factual error? • Why does his evidence section open with "you don't need evidence for that"? • What's wrong with how FSD is marketed now? • Where did he write that the Nazi claims were wrong?

BBC ANTI-TESLA BIAS EXPOSED #7 🔍 2025, the BBC: "Tesla shares slump after European sales fall." "Tesla sales plunge after Elon Musk backlash." 2026: Tesla Europe UP 72.5% in September. France: 47,609 Teslas in ten months. MORE than all of 2024. Reuters covered it. The Wall Street Journal covered it. The New York Times covered it. The BBC? Not a word. Funny how when the sales fell, the BBC couldn't stop writing about it. Now that the sales are back, not one story.

AJ says Musk sold at the peak, then it was all downhill. Look at his arrow. It points at 19.2% in early 2022. But Musk sold in Nov–Dec 2021, when margin was 14.7%. The peak came AFTER he sold. Q3 gross profit is up 9%. What fell is profit after R&D, which jumped 69% to $2.76bn on AI, robotaxi and Optimus. And Musk bought $1bn of Tesla shares last September. Odd way to cash out?

MEDIA BIAS EXPOSED 🔍 Forbes headline: Cybercab "probably not unsupervised". Remote staff helping when a car gets stuck? Every robotaxi has that, Waymo included. Someone watching every Cybercab full time? No proof, just a guess. But a guess is enough for an article. Would Forbes run a Waymo story on a guess?

BBC ANTI-TESLA BIAS EXPOSED 🔍 (HALLOWEEN SATIRE EDITION) Skeletons are cruising round Austin in a car with no driver this Halloween. The @BBCNews still hasn't written a word about it. Too scared? 💀