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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

Financial Times piece on $1.4 billion in shaky accounting on #Tesla’s books is… whoah.

Due to the reality of British libel laws and #ElonMusk’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.s. the FT reporter is #DanMcCrum, whose decade long crusade to take down the #Wirecard 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.

* FT: ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-4
* no paywall: archive.ph/CqQ9W

(h/t @Lazarou)

Screenshot of Financial Times headline: $1.4bn is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla When money spent on assets doesn't result in assets Photo at header: a printed copy of Musk’s nazi salute cut into a heart shape with the caption “Fier de financier l’extrême droite?” over someone else’s portrait on an vertical stone surface, past which a series of dark upright shapes which might be gravestones stand silhouetted against a late twilight sky beyond.
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Tony Yates

@robinwigg I don't think you need a server to do that. It could give you guarantee of continuity if you can guarantee not to give it up; and it would allow you to have your own moderation policies. A simple reader community could be got going with a hashtag #ftalphaville or something like that. If you want to bring toots or tooters together you'd need some mechanism like that to make FTAlphaville content distinctive and findable.

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