The investigation revealed that Tesla had brought a successful legal action against six customers, six bloggers and two journalists on unflattering comments
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by Chris Chilton
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- Tesla is so protective of her reputation in China that she continues her own unhappy customers.
- The company prevailed in 11 cases against owners and journalists, reports AP.
- Chinese journalists told AP that they had been invited not to write negative criticism.
Tesla and her cars are constantly in the news, but to ensure that the news is as positive as possible, the automaker pursues people with negative opinions, including his own clients, a survey of the Associated Press discovered.
AF found evidence that Tesla had brought legal action against at least six owners in China who complained about quality problems or alleged that the accidents they had were due to mechanical defects.
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And journalists from the news agency also discovered that Tesla had continued at least six bloggers and two Chinese media who published negative comments on the brand. He also wins. After say on the 11 cases in which he could determine a verdict, Tesla won everyone. Another case was settled amicably and two are on appeal.
Tesla also won dozens of the 81 cases that the owners brought to the brand, the investigators learned. Customers have prevailed in only nine of prosecution, to which an industry expert has spoken described as an incredible ratio similar to “go to the casino and win each hand”, since Tesla is a fully foreign car manufacturer.
An owner of model 3, Zhang Yazhou, thought that a 2021 accident that brought his parents to the hospital was the result of brake failure on his EV. She made a public demonstration sitting at the top of her broken sedan while holding a grand-diler, but Tesla continued it for defamation and won. Zhang was the order to pay the equivalent of $ 23,000 and apologize, but she refused.
“As a consumer, even if I said something bad, I have the right to comment and criticize,” Zhang told AP. “I talked about my feelings as a car user. It has nothing to do with damage to their reputation. »»
Another owner, a blogger named Feng Shiming, was forced by a court to pay $ 34,000 in Tesla after writing on the so -called braking failures with his Chinese model S.
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Owners like Zhang are ready to express their complaints, but the same for journalists cannot be said, says the report. Tesla has already continued several for their comments, and two media representatives declared to AP in anonymity conditions that they had been told not to write inexpensive things about the company and its products because Tesla ” is a key company that has been introduced and protected by the Shanghai government. “”
We asked TelSa a comment on the AP investigation, but we have not yet heard.
