Recently I wrote how anti-terror investigators were closing in on Russian operatives who had allegedly been hired by Tesla to light infrastructure fires in Germany.

The loose theory was Tesla had used the operation to shut-down its factory and save money (while claiming bogus losses), to also falsely implicate “leftist” groups to sow political conflict and garner AfD (Nazi party) support, and to test attacks on critical infrastructure (e.g. effectiveness of sending swarms of unsold Tesla cars as chemical explosive cluster munitions into Berlin).

Now some of those details are being released by Intel agencies to raise awareness of the overall Tesla/Russia campaign.

In April, two German-Russian nationals were arrested for allegedly plotting bomb and arson attacks on targets including US military facilities on behalf of Russia.

In London in March, several men were charged with working with Russian intelligence services to set fire to a Ukrainian-linked warehouse. Poland is investigating whether an arson attack that destroyed Warsaw’s largest mall in May was connected to Russia and has arrested nine people in connection with Russia-linked acts of sabotage, the prime minister said in May. And French authorities last month detained a Russian-Ukrainian man who was allegedly building bombs as part of a sabotage campaign orchestrated by Moscow.

The news also reveals these agencies have thwarted Russian assassination attempts on business leaders who are helping Ukraine.

Notably, in terms of disinformation and censorship tactics from Russia, the anti-Ukraine Tesla CEO has repeatedly falsely tried to claim he alone is the most in danger of assassination.

…this seeming fixation with an untimely demise become his chief justification for banning the Twitter accounts of several high-profile mainstream journalists, including CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, and The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell. Musk accused the tech reporters of sharing “my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates.” Keith Olbermann, Mashable’s Matt Binder, The Intercept’s Micah Lee, Voice of America’s Steve Herman, and Aaron Rupar were among the other prominent pundits, reporters, and popular Twitter users suspended last night.

Technically reporters were sharing news about a Twitter account Elon Musk disliked, and so — instead of simply censoring that one account he disagreed with — anyone who dared to report about that account as news was silenced by Musk in a politically-driven mass-censorship campaign. In important related news…

The noyb team has filed a complaint against Microsoft’s 2022 subsidiary for building a broker system that intentionally evades GDPR protection of consumer rights.

Advertising broker Xandr (a Microsoft subsidiary) collects and shares the personal data of millions of Europeans for detailed targeted advertising. This allows Xandr to auction off advertising space to thousands of advertisers. But: although only one ad is ultimately shown to users, all advertisers receive their data. This may include personal details concerning their health, sexuality or political opinions. Also, despite selling its service as “targeted”, the company holds rather random information: the complainant apparently is both a man, a woman, employed and unemployed. This could allow Xandr to sell ad space to multiple companies who think that they are targeting a specific group. As if that were not enough, Xandr does not comply with a single access request. noyb has now filed a GDPR complaint.

“Potemkin” refers to a facade or fake construct designed to deceive others into thinking a situation is better than it really is. The term originates from a story about the fake villages supposedly built to impress Empress Catherine II during her journey to Crimea in 1787:

• Surface-level compliance: Xandr might appear to comply with GDPR regulations on the surface.
• Lack of substance: Behind the facade, there might be inadequate measures to actually protect user data or honor GDPR rights.
• Deception: Xandr could be designed to give the impression of compliance while actually making it difficult for users to exercise their GDPR rights.
• Complexity as obfuscation: Xandr might be intentionally complex to discourage users from pursuing their data rights.
• Misdirection: Resources ostensibly provided for GDPR compliance might actually serve to confuse or deter users.

Notably Xandr’s privacy center hasn’t updated since 2022 when Microsoft took it over. GDPR articles 15 and 17 are said to be violated, which noyb suggests will bring fines upwards of 20 million Euros.

Story after story tells the same sad story, how Tesla is a death trap putting innocent families on public roads in huge debt and grave danger.

…corrective steering would kick in, trying to move my 3,500+ lb Lithium Ion detonator at 50 mph out of a danger that simply did not exist, and almost into an adjacent car. Or a divider. Or a median. [After it predictably crashed itself]…the vehicle had been fully repaired, but I expressed to both the insurance company and Tesla that my family didn’t feel safe stepping foot inside of it as I felt like it was a death trap.

I was assured that the car was safe, but I wasn’t so trusting, thinking of all the weird things that had occurred previously with it, especially regarding its autopilot safety features.

The headline says it all. A giant, unmistakable oil tanker was the target of a Tesla robot.

One person is injured after a Tesla crashed into an oil truck Saturday night.

The crash occurred around 11:40 p.m. near Martin Luther King Boulevard.

Fortunately the Tesla did not explode on impact.