As a stock market investor that is purely self-interested in predicting the direction of stocks and who could not give a crap about your opinion on Elon's latest tweet, it's EXTREMELY interesting to see TSLA flip from getting a pass on everything to getting bad PR on everything. It's like a case study in a fall from grace of a company because of political factors.
I feel like a good way to play the market with all this is to look at mainstream media news service articles about TSLA before the Twitter purchase and after the Twitter purchase and train them to spot the sentiment difference in the before and after articles. It would serve as an early warning sign that the company has been switched from being boosted or trashed.
One funny thing is before the Twitter purchase, alt-right outlets like ZeroHedge were constantly mocking Tesla and predicting its imminent demise during its gigantic run up while mainstream outlets were throughly praising it. Now, it's the other way around.
It truly is fascinating to what degree news coverage is politically biased. Partisanship rules everything.
As you point out, the stark flip-flop of roles between left and right-leaning coverage of Tesla is almost hilarious when observed from any "neutral" point of view. Even in this HN comment thread, the emotional injection of political points throughout is both funny and disheartening.
The reason TSLA was ever worth anything was because everything the golden boy touched turned to gold.
The Twitter acquisition (starting from his initial offer) brought expectations down to reality for everyone.
Please note that his behaviour as a multiplier (and the changing nature of that multiplier) of investor value has zero bearing on whether or not the cars he sells are any good. Just like the quality and quantity of those cars had zero bearing on TSLA's stock price.
I feel like a good way to play the market with all this is to look at mainstream media news service articles about TSLA before the Twitter purchase and after the Twitter purchase and train them to spot the sentiment difference in the before and after articles. It would serve as an early warning sign that the company has been switched from being boosted or trashed.
One funny thing is before the Twitter purchase, alt-right outlets like ZeroHedge were constantly mocking Tesla and predicting its imminent demise during its gigantic run up while mainstream outlets were throughly praising it. Now, it's the other way around.