Jalopnik is owned by Big Tech - they're noteworthy for having "auto writers" who don't have driver's licenses. Autoblog, although I don't know as much, is much the same.
Jack Baruth, a tech entrepreneur who's also a part-time auto racer, and former auto writer (TTAC, when it was run by Robert Farago; and later Hagarty's) has written extensively on his own blog about the deficiencies about online auto-writers at these sites (
www.jackbaruth.com). Unfortunately, he got blacklisted - for not going with the Covid chorus and Jab Follies - and now he only writes on Substack, and only allows paid viewership. Misreading his position, once again. He's a good writer and brutally honest, but, he's fully up-front, he's high on the autism spectrum and constantly misreads trends and social cues. His limiting to paid readership is one such.
But if you fish on his old, free blog, you might come up with some attacks on the current media circus. Since Baruth is an accommplished writer and racer, and out of that world, I'd take his word before the other.
But, my point remains: I trust NOTHING the Narrative Legacy Mediuh assert, with regards to Musk, Tesla or any of its peripheral businesses. I don't find Musk engaging; but every damn thing the institutional media asserts, is defensive of their false-reality.