⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p>Financial Times piece on $1.4 billion in shaky accounting on <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a>’s books is… whoah. </p><p>Due to the reality of British libel laws and <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s propensity to sue his detractors i have to assume this is one of the most heavily legally vetted and fact checked things you will ever read. (Also not unreasonable to suspect there might be other tidbits of information the lawyers wouldn't sign off on being published - that happened a *lot* with FT's Wirecard investigation)</p><p>p.s. the FT reporter is <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DanMcCrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DanMcCrum</span></a>, whose decade long crusade to take down the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Wirecard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wirecard</span></a> fraud is one of the more insane stories you can read on the subject of accounting based forensic journalism (McCrum wrote a book about the experience called “Money Men”). Trust me, it's more exciting than it sounds. There's Russian spies and shit.</p><p>* FT: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-445e-bfa2-c171ac43db6e" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-4</span><span class="invisible">45e-bfa2-c171ac43db6e</span></a><br>* no paywall: <a href="https://archive.ph/CqQ9W" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/CqQ9W</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>(h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Lazarou</span></a></span>)</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FT</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FTAlphaville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FTAlphaville</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TSLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TSLA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TSLAQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TSLAQ</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeslaTakedown</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/eupol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eupol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a></p>