Kara: I don't know if our outrage or talking about it does more harm than good. How do you deal with this? Because he's essentially making decisions on the fly. He had a text from Elon telling he'd gone too far. This is like insane. It's got to be they're going to try to lean into automation to help content moderation. And the real story, of course, is it's missing its weekly ad revenue targets like a lot. That's really the actual story. What the fuck are you spending your time, said every Tesla shareholder ever? What are you doing?"
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