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Centauran_Omega t1_itx1ap9 wrote

This article is bullshit.

>Oct 25 - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company's electric vehicles can drive themselves, three people familiar with the matter said.

  1. https://www.justice.gov/news?keys=Tesla&items_per_page=25&f%5B0%5D=field_pr_date%3A2022
  2. https://www.justice.gov

Are you for reals right now Reuters? Who are these people? This is literally "a friend of a friend" and that's basically hearsay. If I go to the DOJ website and can't find a thing, and Reuters claims that DOJ is doing it. That's sus.

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therealcmj t1_ity1rxn wrote

Journalists have, over the last 100 years, developed a whole set of phrases that have meanings.

The phrase “people familiar with the matter” means that the journalist knows who the people are, that they would be in a position to know what they’re talking about, and that the journalist has been able to confirm it with multiple such people.

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