The survey went from more than 90% opposed to Tesla to more than 70% in favor in just one week
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- A survey put in Germany to find out if the respondents would buy a Tesla makes waves.
- At first, he indicated a distance from the brand’s consumers, then mysteriously overturned.
- It seems that more than 250,000 votes came from two IP addresses in the United States
Tesla and Elon Musk are under the microscope these days-and it is not only in the United States. Germany has taken a long hard look at the company and its colorful CEO, with a recent online survey showing that a narcotic 94% of the Germans would not touch a Tesla with a ten -foot pole. But, surprised, surprised – a few days later, the survey results began to return, the people behind it saying that the results could have been manipulated.
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Carscoops recently covered the German T-online survey, and the results were not exactly flattering for Musk. Only 3% of more than 100,000 respondents said they would plan to buy a Tesla, after a clumsy Nazi salute from Musk and her very public support for a right -wing party in Germany. Not exactly a brilliant moment for his public relations team.
The survey results take a wild turn
A week later, the number of people voted in the survey still opened had reached more than 467,500, with an amazing 70% saying that they would plan to buy a Tesla. T-Online investigated the sudden jump and discovered that 253,000 of the votes came from two IP addresses in the United States.
The publication clearly said: “This suggests that the investigation may have been manipulated.” But suspected manipulation did not end there.
T-Online also noted that the survey had been shared thousands of times on X, including a notable post by Elon Musk himself, after the results have become positive. His post alone collected around 2.8 million views on X in just two hours. The German point of sale reported that Tuesday evening, several hundred people responded to the investigation every minute. With the real origin of the votes in question, the investigation was finally closed.
Handled or just a coincidence?
We must be clear that there is no direct link between musk and swing in the survey at the moment. However, the details provided by T-online suggest that someone, or a group, may have manipulated the results. It is difficult to ignore the possibility that the faithful disciples of Musk on X, where he is essentially an unofficial king, could have added to the noise, especially after his post.
In fact, many of you have highlighted the investigation faults during our initial coverage. As a reader said: “It is not an independent investigation that sampled the voters at random. Everyone can take it. As often as they wish. ” They even included a screenshot showing the state of the survey at that time. Obviously, the data source could use a little cleaning.
