- Asana CEO Dustin Moskowitz made his boldest claim against Tesla on Wednesday.
- The tech founder claimed in a thread that Tesla is misleading consumers “on a massive scale.”
- He did not provide detailed evidence for each allegation.
The Facebook co-founder's attacks on Tesla continue, including one of his boldest claims against the company yet: Tesla is the next Enron.
In a Threads post on Wednesday, Dustin Moskowitz, the co-founder of Facebook who later founded Asana, claimed in a Threads post on Wednesday that the EV maker misled consumers “massively” and that Tesla It accused the company of lying about its driving software and the vehicle's range. .
Spokespeople for Tesla and Asana did not respond to requests for comment.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk did not directly address Moskowitz's claims, but instead hurled insults and slurs at the Facebook co-founder regarding X on Friday.
Musk then wrote in another post: “I want to apologize to Dustin Moskowitz for calling him 'retarded'. That was wrong. What I meant was, he's a big idiot and he's an idiot. I know he's legally blind, but I wish him the best and hope we can be friends someday. ”
Moskowitz had not yet addressed Musk's post on Friday.
On Wednesday, the Facebook co-founder acknowledged the seriousness of his comments in a social media post.
“I know I sound crazy to most of you who don't follow $TSLA closely, but it really needs to be said at this point,” he wrote. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is Enron today.”
To summarize the scandals of 20 years ago, energy giant Enron filed for bankruptcy in 2001 after it was discovered that it had used creative accounting to hide billions of dollars in debt and lied about its source of income. did. The company's top executives were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in 2006.
Moskowitz did not outline detailed evidence for each of his allegations, but he did reveal how the automaker was trying to show increased mileage with FSD, Tesla's key driver-assistance technology. He shared a graph from Tesla that he claims is trying to do this. The road to autonomous driving and robotaxis.
The technology founder even predicted that people would be sent to prison.
None of Tesla's executives have been charged with a crime, and no Tesla executives have been found liable for consumer fraud or securities fraud.
The company is facing lawsuits and investigations from federal regulators regarding Tesla's FSD technology or Autopilot and its vehicle range, but the automaker is also facing lawsuits and investigations from federal regulators regarding Tesla's FSD technology or Autopilot and its vehicle range, related to the automaker misleading people about the use of Tesla's driver-assistance features. No legal challenge has been filed.
Most of the lawsuits come from drivers who claim Tesla misleads customers about FSD capabilities. So far, the company has either settled or been found not liable.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Friday that it is investigating whether Tesla did enough to address problems with its Autopilot software after it recalled 2 million vehicles in December.
Tesla also faces an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bloomberg reported last year that federal regulators were investigating how Tesla's driver-assistance software was sold and whether Musk was involved in promoting the technology.
Drivers have also filed a class-action lawsuit against Tesla, accusing it of inflating mileage estimates. A judge said in March that the plaintiffs should undergo individual arbitration.
The company's third quarter of 2023 Tesla disclosed in its financial report that the Department of Justice had subpoenaed the company seeking information on matters such as “vehicle range.”
Moskowitz has also long been skeptical of Elon Musk and his businesses.
Last year, the Asana founder suggested that Tesla and SpaceX were overvalued and that the leaders of both companies were overvalued.
“The point is, I don't think these companies have much influence, or at least don't give him as much credit as others,” Moskowitz said in the thread. “If they were truly based on outward lies, rather than mere self-deception (rose-colored glasses), then we should truly see them as frauds from which he got away.”
Moskovitz even demanded that Musk resign from all executive positions at his company after Musk called anti-Semitic posts about X “actual truth.”
“I call on Elon Musk to resign,” Moskowitz said in a thread last year, adding, “He should resign[from everything].”
