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“#Tesla has disbanded its PR department: report<\/strong>”
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\n Tesla app<\/a>arently has a new strategy for dealing with journalists: Don\u2019t deal with them at all.<\/p>\n

The electric-car giant has dissolved its global public-relations team, leaving the press with no formal point of contact at the world\u2019s most valuable automaker, a new report says.<\/p>\n

Essentially every staffer who used to work in Tesla\u2019s PR office has either moved to a different position at the company or left altogether, according to electric-vehicle industry blog Electrek<\/a>, which said the move to disband the department was confirmed \u201cat the highest level at Tesla.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Silicon Valley company still has some PR operatives in Europe and Asia, the last person to lead the global communications office left last December and other key staffers followed earlier this year, the outlet reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n

That leaves CEO Elon Musk as Tesla\u2019s primary public communicator given that the company hasn\u2019t answered press inquiries in months. Tesla issues occasional press releases but Musk himself frequently breaks news<\/a> about the company, its business and its technology<\/a> on his Twitter<\/a> feed.<\/p>\n

The billionaire tech tycoon has also been vocal about his disdain for the media. He recently complained in a New York Times interview<\/a> that press coverage of Tesla\u2019s September \u201cBattery Day\u201d event showed \u201ca sad reflection of their understanding,\u201d even though reporters weren\u2019t able to ask questions after Musk\u2019s presentation.<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old entrepreneur has also blasted the media for referring to him as a billionaire<\/a> and having a \u201csystemic negative & political bias about almost everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them,\u201d Musk tweeted<\/a> in May 2018.<\/p>\n

Tesla did not immediately respond to an email asking whether it has in fact disbanded its PR department. Musk also didn\u2019t immediately reply to a tweet from a Post reporter asking about the move.\n <\/p><\/div>\n