[proust]

Blind item about EM from a few years back, for what it's worth:

The celebrity CEO isn't dumb. He will tell you that he can give a reporter an all expense paid trip somewhere for a week with an escort/stripper that costs the CEO $20K and he will get 30-40 stories worth 1000 times that amount over the course of a couple of years.

[nascarnation]

Instead of advertising, they fund Tesla-stans on social media. It appears there are a bunch on FR.