Elon Musk monitors those who criticize Tesla on Twitter

The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk searches for tweets with the $ TSLA hashtag

A report in The Wall Street Journal reports that Elon Musk is looking for messages on Twitter with the $ TSLA hashtag, a label used by those who sell Tesla shares in short, and has contacted senior executives of companies linked to negative tweets. to ask about the employee who wrote the message.

During the month of July, Musk approached Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess to question him about his employees, as one of them was criticizing Tesla on Twitter under a false name. In the end, Volkswagen discovered that the author of the negative tweets turned out to be the brother of one of his employees.

According to the report, the CEO of Tesla also wrote to the head of a person named Lawrence Fossi, a director at Rahr Enterprise. Fossi dedicated his messages with the alias “Montana Skeptic” on Twitter, where he criticized Tesla. Fossi had even published that he had short shares of Tesla and that he would benefit when the stock price fell.

“Fossi said in a post on financial analysis site Seeking Alpha that he decided to deactivate his Twitter account and stop writing under Montana Skeptic’s alias after Musk allegedly contacted his boss,” the paper said.

A Tesla spokesman told Business Insider that the Fossi boss was one of the first buyers of the Tesla Model S sedan.

This will be a good warning for all those who decide to write something of Tesla on Twitter, since the billionaire could be watching what you say.

On August 17, the company’s shares collapsed 9% after Musk told the New York Times that he was under emotional stress and preparing for an “extreme torture” caused by short sellers.

Tesla suffered its worst daily decline in two years, after Wall Street wondered if Musk had the ability to lead the electric car giant.