Claim vs evidence

The series post notes the fix was an over-the-air software update — no service-centre visit — after some drivers were not paying enough attention while using FSD. The headline reading can sound like two million cars needing a workshop repair.

The Q2 fall was real and covered in dedicated BBC stories. Q3 then hit a record 497,099 deliveries (Tesla's best quarter ever in the series framing). Reuters, CNN and AP covered the record the same day; the series says the BBC gave it one line five days later inside a shares story — four dedicated bad-news stories vs one buried line for the record.

Per the series: Tesla's issue was font size on screen, fixed with an OTA software update on the driveway. Ford's camera recall (NHTSA 25V-695) needed a dealer visit, with a final fix not expected until June 2026. The series asks why one made headlines and the other did not.

The post cites Autoblog's 2025 US recall rankings: Ford 12.9 million vehicles (more than the next nine carmakers combined); Tesla 745k, 9th place. It also states over 91% of Tesla's recalled cars were fixed OTA, while more than 80% of Ford's needed a dealer trip, including nearly 2.9 million for faulty rear-view cameras. The author could not find a BBC story on Ford's big 2025 recalls (most recent BBC "Ford recalls" piece found was from 2019).

What the series says Musk actually wrote: Ukraine military violated Starlink terms by using it for offensive drone strikes. Further down the same BBC article, Musk is quoted saying Starlink can be used for infrastructure that is military. The post argues defensive/civilian use vs offensive strikes are not the same thing; Starshield is the separate military system.

The series recounts Musk saying "You just lied," and states the BBC still runs the same claim without an example. Read the interview piece and the series post side by side.

Four years after the takeover, the series notes X was the number one news app on the US App Store (UK App Store charts link in sources). The post argues the BBC wrote an obituary that the product outlived — and has not corrected the record.

Dyson scrapped the project in 2019, saying it could not make it commercially viable. The series notes Tesla delivered 1.79 million cars in 2024.

Jaguar stopped making the I-Pace in 2024. The series notes Tesla delivered 1.79 million cars that year.

The series cites Bloomberg having put $60m behind House Democrats since September (per the post's sourcing) and states the BBC had not written a word about that figure while covering Musk's midterm money.