That viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is a fake

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Everyone with two brain cells could tell that the moment it was released.

New to tesla Fud?

from the verge? whats the catch?

Too bad most people only have one…

I'm sure all the haters are going to retract their statements regarding this, right? No? They dug in? shocker.

Watching this play out is a reminder of the sad reality playing out across multiple subreddits. Anger generating posts catch like wild fire, while this one will likely fail to make smoke.

Well duh. Of course it was fake.

That's being generous.

As is tradition now

All that, as well as Tesla does not have "dealers" so the message "Return to Dealer" is obv super fake.

"The video quickly went viral on Reddit and BlueSky" Of course it did, these places nowadays are full of misinformation and disinformation. These places seriously need community notes like X has.

Lol you should have seen r/publicfreakout and r/whatcouldgowrong This situation got me to unsubscribe from a couple more trash subs, though, so that’s a positive

That alone almost makes buying one worth it in and of itself. So refreshing.

"mom says we have to share the neuron"

Can’t affect the brand anymore than all the other press does

I would have said "yes. We know", but apparently a lot of people really are gullible enough that they've just assumed it was true. It was a rather obvious hoax from the start, and I got downvoted to hell every time I pointed it out.

Too late. My mom already saw it on Facebook and messaged me as if it was fact and she was very concerned

Truth be told, it was a convincing fake if you never saw Cybertruck’s UI. Wondering how they did it.

Jesus Christ more anti Tesla stuff and people jumped on the bandwagon wagon. I swear,the people who believed this stuff, it’s a wonder they can function on a day to day basis

Playing back a pre uploaded YouTube video or something similar. Not hard at all. But to stop in the middle of a highway just to pull this stunt is pretty psychotic btw

They can’t, unless someone tells them what to do next, who to hate, which protests to go to, etc etc.

I’ll admit that I bought it. I should have suspected that Tesla would never disable a vehicle especially while it was driving. That would be a major safety risk.

I'm running out of trash subs to unsubscribe from. On a related note, I'm running out of subs I'm subscribed to

“Return to dealer”

Defamation lawsuit incoming?

It was a very effective fake. Tesla owners see right through it, but they’re not the intended audience. The anti EV crowd and conspiracy theorists ate this up.

Too many people have a hate on for anything Tesla just because Elon is a twat that needs to be fired and can’t keep his mouth shut.

Honestly everything on the internet should be fact checked.

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The funniest part is he is going to receive a real cease and desist letter now and probably gonna get sued for damages.

I’m surprised no one was pointing out how you can see pillarboxing (gray bars) on the sides of the screen when he pans the camera. You get that from a video that doesn’t match the aspect ratio of the screen, not a native UI message lol

Of course it is. Social media is basically 75% fake.

Community notes are too slow. Even on gratuitous misinformation, 90% of the views and engagement happen before the note goes up. Maybe they need to automate it with Grok or something, but 3/4 of X thinks "Grok is too woke" because it basically tells MAGA its wrong constantly.

Full screen YouTube video or webpage. The browser can do full screen. Parking the car in the middle of the freeway to do it was fuckin balls, though.

Community notes are slow because they’re rated by others for accuracy. I write and vote on community notes (albeit not on X) and I get a notification when they go live. Sometimes it’s up to two days, but never within hours. The notes I’ve written are all on less popular posts and they still haven’t met whatever the threshold is for the note to be published. Community Notes are as helpful as they are useless: They help those who see the post way later but they are useless to anything that’s trending viral, which is when a note is needed most. An AI to catch repetitive claims (like YouTube with certain subjects) would be helpful but still wouldn’t put a note in front of a video like this one.

I’m not arguing it isn’t fake, but do they not have dealers? I got a model y 5or 6 years ago. I went to the Tesla place(?) in Littleton, CO, was shown what they had in stock, set up my lease, drove off in it. Is that not a Tesla dealership?

At least if you interact with a post that gets noted, you will get a notification about the new note. X is the only platform I'm aware that does something like that.

They are all corporate owned stores, not "dealerships" in the conventional sense. All other auto "dealerships" are independently owned franchises. Tesla does not operate that way. The Tesla locations are "stores" or "galleries" or "service centers" -- not dealerships.

Don’t forget Tesla’s #1 haters over at r/technology

Yet it shot to the top of r/PublicFreakout and I had people calling me an idiot in the comments when I called out it was fake lmao

Yeah didn't this guy doctor this alongside a cease and desist to promote his new song?

Elon should sue the clown and his benefactors

I don't know.

Generous WAS having a neuron to even share!

By me of course. Everyone agrees that I'm not biased.

Unfortunately all the simpletons out here just eat this up and run with it. People can't be bothered to research or verify things.

> By me of course. Everyone agrees that I’m not biased. *Community Notes* u/laserdicks is a self proclaimed obese drug user. https://reddit.com/r/StopEatingSeedOils/comments/1f01ktl/im_obese_and_use_drugs_are_seed_oils_even_worth/

Thought you were the first to think of this huh.

This community notes/fact checking is already making Reddit better!

First question: why does this dimwit make a fake video like this? Second question: will Tesla prosecute this dimwit?

You forgot TikTok, which is arguably much worse.

Same honestly. Sadly I feel like within a couple years I’ll wind up leaving Reddit for good.

Its a failed rapper that tried to get free promo like this and get known. Too bad his music is D tier at best

I used to have friends that would easily fall for this crap We are no longer friends.

The intersection of anti ev and anti tesla people go crazy for stuff like this. Other ev subs are straight up incoherent with how much disdain they have for solely for this company, it’s nonsensical but this is Reddit where every other person is putting on a performance in the comment section.

Tesla should definitely sue that guy. He should also lose his license for stopping in the fast lane and endangering others for the sake of a social media bit.

I’m not a Tesla owner and you had to question the location of the shut down. That alone made the video questionable because a company wouldn’t take the liability on by shutting a car down on the highway, regardless of what the screen was showing. Guess I’m not anti ev or a conspiracy theorist either so…maybe I wasn’t the intended audience.

Sounds like a relatively nuanced distinction which you would expect an average person to overlook.

This.

Now I expect Elektrek to do a whole article claiming it happened Probably written by Fred Lambert.

People will overlook the numerous imperfections in the video to confirm their existing biases against Tesla and Elon, even though said biases were also formed by consuming tons of anti-Tesla fake news over the years. And when you debunk this piece of fake news they will just go "oh well, but it's something they _would_ do given their history!"

r/noshitsherlock

Typically if Tesla has some type of 'show stopping' issue, it goes into 'limp' mode and lets you power the car out of danger.

It's as much Anti-Trump as well. 95% of the people who hate Tesla voted for Kamala. I'm not saying you can't vote for Kamala and love Tesla, but those who hate Tesla, voted for her. This is also why they need that 'safety monitor' in Austin. Do you know how many aholes would be purposely doing things in the car to make for a dramatic video saying FSD is dangerous or causes accidents?

It was sent to me twice before I even saw it on my feed. Everyone that doesn't drive a Tesla, anyone that remotely doesn't like the CEO, is believing it and sharing it like crazy.

Sure, perhaps the "average person" might. But someone who owns a Cybertruck and is creating a totally fake viral video making real headlines to draw attention to himself?!? He should know better.

Thx. Now im racist again apparently

Of fucking course it is. But it’s ok only 99% of Reddit believed it because rocket man = bad

Oh, gotcha. I did not realize you were strictly criticizing the creator of the hoax. I was seeing a lot of people here mocking the general public for believing the image and thought your dealership statement was more of it, but that was incorrect on my part.

I mean that subreddit seems to hate technology broadly, ironically enough.

Noooo! But it’s on the internet? It MUST be real!

75%? A true optimist.

Embarrassed to say I thought it was real because I didn’t think someone would be insane enough to stop in the middle of a busy highway to film a fake video. Putting lives at risk for that is beyond my comprehension.

\>I'm running out of subs I'm subscribed to try: r/hardware r/berries r/linux r/linux_gaming those are usually my happy places