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*To add, I now see where,Fyi, Was a very Interesting discussion on Q & A tonight re:- Musk / Twitter etc
Cyber Hacks, Musk and Trump
This week on Q+A, how fragile is our democracy?
With cyber-crime on the rise, politicians and their families coming under violent attack and existential threats looming – how can we protect ourselves and the system that has served us for so many years?
Millions of Australians have had their private data stolen by hackers, revealing just how vulnerable big companies are to ransom attacks.
So what more can we do as individuals to protect ourselves?
Has government dropped the ball on cyber security?
Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is causing a storm, with mass layoffs and companies pulling their advertising dollars over the Tesla billionaire’s changes.
Is it the end of the road for the social media giant?
What would a world without Twitter look like?
MEDIA – MUSK TWITTER TAKEOVER
Melissa Keller-Tuberg asked: Elon Musk wants to create an internet where the most privileged people in society can punch down at marginalised groups - queer people, people of colour, women and gender minorities, the Jewish community - without facing any consequences.
In one of his first tweets as owner, he stated: comedy is now legal on Twitter. But the real comedy is that after people started making parody accounts impersonating Elon, he banned them.
Tesla stock removed from Wedbush Best Ideas list over 'Twitter train wreck disaster'
Tesla Inc. stock -7.17% was removed from Wedbush's Best Ideas list on Thursday, with analyst Dan Ives citing the overhang from Chief Executive's entanglement with Twitter Inc."In what has been a dark comedy show with Twitter, Musk has essentially tarnished the Tesla story/stock and is starting to potentially impact the Tesla brand with this ongoing Twitter train wreck disaster," Ives wrote in a note to clients.
"From selling Tesla stock again and again, to the PR nightmare that Twitter has become, cutting 50% of employees and then needing to bring some back, Musk's attention focus from Tesla to Twitter, and ultimately the fear that this Twitter lightening rod of controversy on a daily (almost hourly) basis starts to negatively change the Tesla brand globally." Tesla IS Musk, Ives wrote, and it has made him the richest man in the world.
Tesla is the golden child of his empire, and he's changed the auto world much in the way that Apple's iPhone changed phones. But now he has managed to do what short sellers tried and failed -- to crush Tesla's stock despite the EV company being in a position of strength.
Ives said he still believes in the EV story as a longer-term play, but Tesla's roughly 25% selloff since the Twitter deal is "an agonizing cycle for investors to navigate and has put massive pressure on the stock as its a Boy Who Cried Wolf narrative shaping up."
Ives is sticking with his outperform rating on Tesla stock but lowered his price target to $250 from $300 to reflect the overhang.
Tesla was slightly higher premarket but is down 50% in the year to date, while the S&P 500 has fallen 21%.
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