(CNN) – The sociologist Joan Donovan looks at social media contributions about herself rarely more on X. She already knows what is claimed.
“According to reports, Joan Donovan is the leading agitator and organizer of the nationwide Tesla terrorism,” says a post from Sunday afternoon. “Why wasn't she arrested?”
Shortly after midnight Tuesday, CEO and X owner of Tesla, Elon Musk, who has recently grow to be the Slasher-in-in-in the Trump government of the federal employees. reposted This message with an emoji with an increased eyebrow.
“I would be an idiot,” said Donovan.
Since Musk's repost, more X users have increased criticism of Donovan and others
“The FBI must immediately confiscate all of its documents, phones and computers” post This marked the office and the Ministry of Homeland Security. Another says Donovan – An academic who makes a speciality of online fehlin information – organized and increased violence against Tesla and Elon Musk.
“You somehow wake up every day and look at your e -mail and you can see:” Oh, last night at 10 p.m. someone should have said something about me because I even have 50 e -mails, “said Donovan to CNN.
A wave of violent attacks has developed with Tesla vehicles, dealers, service centers and chargers in the USA in the past few months Task Force Now examine the type of incidents, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI director Kash Patel, who are labeled domestic terrorism.
But the protest movement that Donovan created in February should always be an alternative to violence so as not to encourage it, she told CNN.
“I used to be horrified to see the damage to property that has increased and vandalism near Tesla. One of my most important goals was to seek out out what a public tactic is where other people can feel secure,” she said on Tuesday.
Now the wildness of the reaction to Donovan, an assistant professor for journalism and emerging media studies at Boston University, has led to dying threats and forced them to take security measures.
Some of Donovan's academic colleagues were also threatened, and Boston University no longer shows its work -e email address online, added them.
“It was interesting from a perspective of somebody who studied things like doxing and swating,” said Donovan. “It just isn’t an unusual area.”
Protests can have “a festive atmosphere”
Even before Trump won the elections in November – with Musks considerable financial support And public support – Teslas was supposedly targeted. The electric vehicle manufacturer's CEO seemed to wipe the incidents and publish about a month before the inauguration on x“Anyone who destroys a Tesla can have a criminal record. Make on, do my day.”
Since Musk took on an active role in the government, there was a significant increase In vandalism and arson against Tesla vehicles – a trend that Donovan disapproved from the start, she told CNN because he was bent on violence.
So she took the idea of protesting muscle – the The richest person in the world – Through Tesla and Target on Tesla and tried to turn With regard to peaceful options with an online campaign #teslatakedown, which encourages people to encourage “strike posts on the sidewalk” for every Tesla dealer.
The movement collected steam when Alex Winter – an actor who is best known for the film franchise “Bill & Ted”, who is also a politically active documentary filmmaker – turned to Donovan and had combined the protest efforts with his Own campaign People encourage to sell their Tesla shares and vehicles.
Since, Protests in Tesla facilitiesHundreds can often be drawn in dozens of US cities. And there is nothing threatening about them, said Donovan.
“People bring their children with them. They bring dogs,” she said. “It's actually a reasonably festive atmosphere.”
However, this climate was pierced on Saturday in front of a Tesla dealer near West Palm Beach, Florida, when demonstrators were plowed onto the curb as a SUV. Authorities said.
An employee of Tesla informed the police that the driver got out of the vehicle, went to the car dealership and said that he was standing with Tesla, according to a arrest.
The administration suggests
While other activists and A Member of the congress Donovan, who believes that her name appears in Maga Social Media again and again. The reason is about another focus of the Trump administration: Universities, students and college members take up with Financing cuts And Immigration measures.
“I believe a part of it’s a stereotype, certainly one of these university professors that you simply want, there isn’t any,” said Donovan.
Trump, Muschus and Bondi everyone saidWithout providing evidence, they believe that a group coordinates and financed the recent politically motivated attacks on Tesla, themselves as one FBI announcement Last week the incidents claimed “looked as if it would have been carried out by the one criminals”, which “perceive these attacks as crimes without victims”.
Donovan has been an activist for a long time and has been visiting protests of all kinds since her teenage years, and she did not recognize the picture that her online critics paint.
“Some of the claims are really strange to me, just as I’m a top democratic donor. I’m how, I've never made a political donation,” she said. No donations from Donovan are listed in an online database for the election commission for the federal election.
“#Teslatakedown Movement is obliged to steer violence ” repeated Sunday in the social network bluesky.
Musk is not the first Tech Titan to publicly criticize Donovan.
She accused Meta -The company that Facebook belongs -to remove it from its position in 2023, which led the research project for technology and social change in the Harvard University's Harvard University, said that after a donation of 500 million US dollars, from a group that was operated by Meta -CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Both the Harvard and the Chan Zuckerberg initiative emphasize any donor mixture.
Demonstrators say that musk is responsible for the call of his own brand
Musk often came online in people who express Tesla trouble because of his government cuts. In another X Post In response to a woman who posted a video on X that she “judged” Tesla driver, Musk answered: “She is mentally unwell.”
The largest shareholder of Musk, Tesla's largest shareholder, is unrealistic, say business analysts. “Tesla is a musk and Muschus is Tesla” wrote in a note to customers. “They are synonymous and can’t be separated.”
And it’s difficult to understand how much the protests are Influence Tesla's final result. The company has to struggle clearly Around 40% decrease From its high brand.
Musk encouraged Tesla employees in a single Online Rathaus This month to capture your share and be published on X on the partial back rash of the share price this week.
While the protests continue against Tesla, Donovan argues that someone blamed them and other organizers non -violent strike posts for the recent difficulties of the company to look in the wrong direction.
They believe “it’s in some way an effect of a wierd conspiracy and cabal,” she said, “but really musk is the one who causes the decision of his own brand probably the most harm.”
CNNS Auzinea Bacon, Allison Morrow, Donie O'Sullivan and Clare Duffy contributed to this report.
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