00:01hey everybody rob mare here welcome back
00:02to Tesla daily today we've got a few
00:04updates to catch up on with the
00:05cybertruck including some new details on
00:07hidden features also got some updates on
00:09Vision park assist which of course
00:10started rolling out last Friday so we'll
00:12talk about the first impressions of that
00:14uh and we have some updates on
00:15incentives as well as a few other items
00:17today all right looking at the stock
00:19tougher start to the week after a pretty
00:21strong close to the week last week Tesla
00:22down in a little over half a percent
00:23today to $252 eight underperforming the
00:27NASDAQ which was up 610 of a perc on the
00:29day today I don't know if it was super
00:31related but I did happen to notice that
00:33other automakers struggled a bit today
00:34too so you can see here Ford GM stantis
00:37all the other us automakers down today
00:39uh I guess if you exclude rivian and
00:40Lucid didn't look at them I think rivian
00:42was up but the Legacy oem's down today
00:45uh Ford and GM a little bit worse than
00:47Tesla and also they seem to trade
00:50differently than the NASDAQ sometimes we
00:53see Tesla kind of follow a similar
00:54pattern but we can see most of the
00:55automakers starting in the green today
00:57and finishing in the red versus the
00:59NASDAQ actually started closer to flat
01:01and finished closer towards the high of
01:03the day certainly higher than trading in
01:04the morning so just wanted to point that
01:06out seems like a little bit of
01:08correlation there for the other
01:09automakers in the US but getting into
01:12the cybertruck some exciting news over
01:13the weekend Tesla started to expand
01:15orders or invitations to order rather
01:17for the Cyber truck so it looks like
01:20we're up to 172 orders on the Cyber
01:22truck Owners Club order tracking sheet
01:24now uh many of these coming in the last
01:26couple of days in fact Tesla has now
01:28actually stopped allowing the ordering
01:31to some of these customers that had been
01:32invited to ordered so unfortunately had
01:35to act pretty quick on that I think in
01:36some cases there was even um some orders
01:39that were configurable or could be
01:41placed that were not Tesla didn't
01:43actually communicate via email so you
01:44just kind of had to log in and check on
01:46it uh so keep an eye out for the things
01:48like that in the future but for now 172
01:50orders in here I don't know what that
01:52would would mean in terms of total
01:53orders that Tesla is allowed maybe
01:55something like a th000 at this point for
01:57the foundation series and that could be
01:59uh why they have stoed stopped at least
02:00for the time being but nice to see these
02:02orders and importantly these orders were
02:05placed outside of in many cases
02:07California and Texas which that first
02:09wave had a couple of people like that
02:11but they had some tie to having ordered
02:13in Texas or California before now we
02:16have you know you can see from the order
02:17track here here Florida um Maryland
02:19Arizona Montana Michigan Etc so a lot of
02:22different states now being opened up
02:24which is very exciting to see uh that
02:26expansion even with this initial found
02:28uh Foundation series
02:30um set of cybertruck orders so we'll
02:32keep an eye on that Tesla did I think
02:33also adjust the delivery time frame
02:36estimates for some customers too looks
02:38like the Cyber Beast version has maybe
02:40been pushed out a little bit we'll have
02:42to wait and see more on that it's tough
02:43with such few orders out there to get
02:46really you know precise or accurate
02:47information on that but we'll keep an
02:49eye on that as well and then getting
02:52into some new details we've got couple
02:54of pieces of new content first uh Lars
02:57and France were on J Leno's garage so
02:59this was was posted I believe today and
03:01gives us an exciting look at some of the
03:03details that uh they thought about when
03:05making the vehicle some things that
03:06maybe we haven't really quite learned
03:08about yet um so I want to go through
03:10some of those one of them one of them
03:13which was kind of cool uh laa pointed
03:15out that there is a 48v volt accessory
03:17connection on the top of the Cyber truck
03:19here to make it really easy to connect
03:20something like the light bar accessory
03:23uh so that's what this is here it can
03:25plug in directly uh at this connection
03:27point and it also then integrates with
03:29the user interface it sounded like so
03:31you're able to control it via the you
03:33know the UI via the touchcreen so I
03:36think pretty cool Implement
03:37implementation of something like that uh
03:39we've got a little bit more detail on
03:40the other accessories or the light bar
03:42accessory too that we'll talk about here
03:44so just tried to recap that for
03:45everybody I would definitely recommend
03:47this one this one is linked in the
03:48description below uh but just to kind of
03:50recap things that they said about the
03:52cybertruck in general frons did confirm
03:54they do have over 2 million deposits so
03:56that is kind of what the reservation
03:57number had indicated uh Elon had
03:59previously said more than a million so
04:02looks like that reservation indicator
04:04ended up being accurate uh which is nice
04:06to see over 2 million deposits for the
04:08Cyber Tru obviously super impressive
04:10we'll see what the conversion rate is
04:11but that's a a big backlog for interest
04:14So Far So Great point to start from uh
04:17they talked about the design fron
04:19specifically said that Tesla did not
04:20want to add the mirrors the side mirrors
04:22uh but they couldn't get the regulations
04:23changed so they had to ship it with them
04:26we'll talk a little bit more about that
04:27in a second they talked about the glass
04:29that's strength of it he said if glass L
04:31said if the glass gets chipped it will
04:32create a stress ring rather than
04:34continuing to kind of spiderweb out
04:36improving repairability of the vehicle
04:38of the glass rather so that's I think a
04:40nice nice note especially as we talked
04:42about the price I think it's a
04:43reasonable price but still $1,900 for
04:46the part to replace the cybertruck
04:47window as that is I think one of the
04:49biggest pieces of automotive glass if
04:51not the biggest that windshield there uh
04:53they talked about the americanmade
04:55aspect of the cybertruck which you know
04:57especially for a truck is is really nice
04:58to see as those are are often touted as
05:00you know America it's a big market for
05:02America uh or for trucks rather of
05:04course the biggest market so Lars
05:06assumes that this is like Tesla's other
05:08vehicles want going to be joining the
05:10top five most americanmade car index
05:12next year he said he couldn't think of
05:13one part that's not uh made in the US so
05:16we'll be excited to see that and should
05:18be uh something that is probably made a
05:20little bit bigger of a deal out than has
05:22been historically uh for Tesa vehicles
05:24and then on supercharging Lis did
05:27mention charging it up to 355 KW we've
05:29heard 350 before so it's not a huge
05:31difference but looks like maybe even
05:32there's a bit of capacity above that
05:34like we've seen with v V3 superchargers
05:36occasionally going a couple of ticks
05:39250 uh and then they talked about the
05:41wiper laa said that the 48 volt
05:43architecture helped make the wiper
05:44possible in the interview he said that
05:46that could take up to 600 to 800 watts
05:49of power uh but he later clarified that
05:51on X here to around 120 so not quite
05:55that much but still uh something that
05:57would be very aided by the 48 volt
06:01architecture in terms of bringing that
06:02power uh to the wiper they also talked
06:04about the Cyber truck in water so LS did
06:07comment that Elon really did want it to
06:09be capable of of being a boat
06:11essentially it's not quite there but he
06:13did say that it can Traverse up to 2 and
06:151 half ft of water uh depth without
06:17issue when it's in Wade mode they talked
06:19a little bit about the pressurization of
06:20the battery pack which we had talked
06:22about before uh LS basically just said
06:24this adds a little bit of air in the
06:25pack to help keep water out from any
06:27potential leaks leak areas so we've
06:29talked about the waterproof rating and
06:31how that I think steps it up and that's
06:33what the the addition of air is helping
06:35do there uh and he did happen to say
06:37that the cybertruck quote unquote almost
06:39floats uh and a little bit tongue and-
06:41cheek a little bit serious as we
06:42sometimes see from Tesla he said that
06:44you could add some buoyancy and use the
06:46220 volt Outlet to add an onboard motor
06:49an outboard motor on the back uh and use
06:51it as a boat if if you wanted to um
06:54probably keeping in mind that that depth
06:56and and things like that um just to to
06:59avoid water in the cabin but if you
07:01wanted to seal up some of those things
07:02and and try it you could probably even
07:04do a little bit more than that so um
07:06interesting to see that I'm sure at some
07:08point we'll get all sorts of experiments
07:10out there um on that accessories they
07:13did talk about the tent a little bit uh
07:15fron mentioned that the tent can be set
07:17up in less than 5 minutes they the video
07:19kind of showed it inflating and things
07:20like that so a nice uh note on the tent
07:23and then like we talked about with the
07:24light bar uh that integrates with the UI
07:26and they said it has about 500 M of
07:28visibility for off-roading use cases
07:31which um you know I'm sure there are
07:33other third party things that are out
07:35there for vehicles now that can do that
07:37uh but nice to have that in a way that's
07:39easily attachable with this integration
07:41here uh that they pointed out and
07:43something that then automatically
07:45connects the UI which is something that
07:47uh something anything third party would
07:49obviously struggle with and then they
07:51did happen to mention a couple of other
07:52things frons did confirm they are
07:54working on wireless charging so we saw
07:56that little bit of a teaser at investor
07:57day of you know doing doing cool things
08:00in the future and that was an image that
08:01was shared on that slide kind of hinting
08:03at wireless charging development uh the
08:06context of what they were discussing
08:07that was during home charging so that
08:09seems to be at least one intended use
08:11case for that and then of course a lot
08:12of people imagine that that would be
08:14something that would be helpful in the
08:15context of a robo taxi Fleet something
08:18like that and then on the semi uh Lars
08:20did say that they have close to 100
08:22Tesla semis testing internally at Tesla
08:25I don't know if that's in addition to
08:26the number that is with Pepsi but
08:29somewhere around that number at least in
08:31total if not just internally to Tesla
08:33and they said that they're testing with
08:34Pepsi L said to prepare for volume
08:36production next year so uh this is very
08:39recent of course that's a good sign that
08:40they are continuing to track uh towards
08:42that so keep an eye out on kada for the
08:46semi and then I mentioned the mirrors
08:48here that Tesla didn't want those they
08:50have designed them to be quite easy to
08:52remove so we've got a video here from
08:54rap bullies on YouTube walking through a
08:57little bit of the wrapping process for
08:58the cybertruck but this video
08:59specifically focusing on the mirrors and
09:02you can see it's just three torque
09:04screws here uh that are removable and
09:06then you just slide the mirror out
09:08unfortunately the video ends and they
09:10don't really show what it looks like
09:11after that you can't really get a good
09:13sense for it um but it should be
09:15something that's really easy to remove
09:17for people that are interested in doing
09:18that and then you know if any sort of
09:21additional covering needs to be put
09:22there I'm sure third parties can can
09:24help out with that if Tesla doesn't
09:25offer anything themselves or maybe it
09:27just is fine without anything there so
09:30for those that are interested in that
09:31that should obviously improve the
09:32aerodynamic efficiency of the vehicle
09:34and help with range uh if you are
09:36comfortable without having those side
09:38mirrors of course the camera's there to
09:41substitute so a lot of cool details
09:43there and then we got more because we
09:45got uh the second part of Monroe's
09:47interview with the Tesla team so this
09:49was a factory tour uh with Lars they
09:52showed a lot of cool stuff here this
09:53particular screen is the uh laser cutter
09:55for blanks for uh panels so looking at
09:59my notes here they said that this laser
10:02cutter the person describing it said
10:04quote it cuts up to 30 microns and it's
10:07the first laser of its kind to do that
10:09typically these machines cut at 1 mm
10:12this was a special development with
10:13Tesla and Schuler so I assume he's
10:16talking about the Precision of the
10:17machine there um 30 microns that's 3% of
10:22a millimeter so it's extremely small you
10:24know 133r roughly of of a millimeter so
10:28just kind of shows you know how detailed
10:31Tesla is getting uh with the
10:33manufacturing process here with the
10:34cybertruck they also talked about the
10:36stainless steel in general how when they
10:37originally started out the design it was
10:393 mm 2 and half to 3 mm thick they've
10:43been able to reduce that now to 1.4 mm
10:46on most of the panels and then 1.8 mm on
10:49the doors um in terms of the thickness
10:52while not having to sacrifice the
10:55required strength that they need and of
10:57course we've still seen the the bullet
10:58resistance and and things like that
11:00those demonstrations so nice to see that
11:02progress from sort of the initial
11:03Concept in terms of what they've been
11:05able to accomplish there obviously the
11:07thinner that material is the more it's
11:09going to be the cheaper and easier it is
11:11going to be to work with through the
11:12rest of the production process so L's
11:15talked about the Micron Precision that
11:16Elon had been pushing uh really that is
11:18you know something that is actually
11:19happening at Tesla here's a blank this
11:21is um the front trunk you know the top
11:24of the front trunk area there so they
11:27just use an optical spot checker here
11:29and then they compare it uh at again
11:31Micron levels here um Lars was pointing
11:34out some that were you know within
11:36within 20 uh microns and uh sort of
11:39around that level in terms of various
11:41levels of precision coming through from
11:42the optical uh image here so just kind
11:45of cool to get some insight on on what
11:47there um and then they also showed one
11:51instance of a door panel here being you
11:53know going through that air bending
11:54process that we heard Lars talk about on
11:57maybe one of the earlier interviews with
11:59mon are one of the other ones that
12:00they've done since which by the way just
12:02exciting that we're getting this kind of
12:04access and um it's fun to fun to hear
12:06from you know broader portions of
12:08Tesla's team to give us you know more
12:11in-depth details on a lot of these
12:13things uh so cool to see that LS did say
12:15that they're only running one shift
12:17right now in terms of production uh
12:19really just working on getting the
12:20quality down so that they can ramp up
12:21from there uh his specific quote was
12:24that uh as you can see with all the
12:25equipment we're ready to roll at a high
12:27volume now it's just how we ramp go slow
12:30and get quality right so good to hear
12:32that and I think from what we've seen
12:34both at the delivery event when Tesla
12:35allowed some tours there and through
12:37some of this behind the scenes stuff uh
12:39you know it definitely looks like
12:40Tesla's got this stuff in place like
12:42Lara says and just working on getting
12:45that speed up which is uh hopefully
12:47exciting for the prospects of where
12:48things go from here uh and then specific
12:51to the door panels here uh LS did
12:53mention that this takes about 75% of the
12:55side crash loads so just kind of a nice
12:57little tidbit um in terms of of the you
12:59know exoskeleton strength offered by the
13:02design of the vehicle uh there so
13:04overall really cool again this one is
13:06also linked in the description so I'd
13:07recommend both of those videos this is a
13:08quick one only about a half an hour uh
13:10and Leno's Garage was about an hour all
13:13right and then we do have some first
13:16looks at the vision park assist that we
13:17had talked about rolling out with the
13:18holiday update on Friday so people
13:21getting their hands on this this video
13:22from Ross win was shared by aoke um from
13:24Tesla's autopilot team and here we can
13:27just I think this video captures you
13:29know what the feature entails pretty
13:31nicely uh particularly you can see here
13:34these uh the lane lines and the parking
13:36lines and things like that uh visualized
13:38as well which should be a nice help um
13:41just in terms of being you know aware of
13:44surroundings when parking that that
13:45definitely helps with that so I think
13:48with the feature that Elon had alluded
13:50to too about them working on a design
13:52that would allow you to kind of diagnose
13:54and select a parking spot for the
13:56vehicle to be able to park itself you
13:58can kind of see see where something like
13:59that would come in um alongside that uh
14:02so oo said that this replaces the 2D
14:04obstacle band that customers had with
14:05high resolution 3D construction
14:07reconstruction of Tesla surroundings
14:09this is an extension of our occupancy
14:10network with much higher resolution to
14:12help with tight parking Maneuvers so he
14:15also said that this is the first version
14:17of the technology in the future they're
14:18going to have you know more improvements
14:20better functionality and things like
14:21that so so far I think reception has
14:25positive it's maybe not getting to
14:27feature parody it's a little bit
14:28different than the ultrasonic sensor
14:30Vehicles which he also said by the way
14:31would eventually get a feature like this
14:33at some point of course this is going to
14:34the non USS cars right now uh but in the
14:37future that will expand and obviously
14:39improve over time so I don't think it's
14:42quite there yet as we have seen with the
14:45vision based park assist previously uh
14:47that was not the 3D rendering and and
14:48more of just the replicating the
14:50Ultrasonics not quite up to the accuracy
14:52or the Precision of the I guess probably
14:55accuracy of the Ultrasonics uh but
14:58hopefully improving over time and I
14:59think this is something that is going to
15:01satisfy people or at least be more
15:03satisfactory to people that we're
15:05looking more for that bird's eye top
15:06down uh visualization rather than being
15:09someone that something that maybe
15:10satisfies people that had complaints
15:12about the the ultrasonic uh removal so
15:15again hopefully over time that'll
15:16improve and help alleviate that but I
15:18think overall fairly positive reception
15:21with the the knowledge that maybe it's
15:23not a complete replacement for that
15:25yet all right and then another I guess
15:28feature change here that has gotten a
15:30lot of attention today Tesla has sort of
15:33removed the Disney Plus app from the
15:35Tesla theater it's not fully removed you
15:39if you had recently used the Disney Plus
15:41app it doesn't actually get removed and
15:43if you want it back you can actually
15:44just go to disneyplus.com and then it
15:46goes back into the Tesla theater so a
15:48lot of the assumptions so far I don't
15:50think we have any confirmation of this
15:51there's been some rumors and and things
15:53like that but a lot of the assumptions
15:55so far is that this is kind of Elon
15:56pushing back on Bob Iger for uh the them
15:59stopping advertising on X which of
16:00course happened a few weeks ago so
16:02there's been a little bit of a tiff
16:04there uh if that's the reason that this
16:06change was made I do think that's a
16:08little bit of a misstep uh but I also
16:11that the degree of it is is relatively
16:14minor um certainly in terms of you know
16:17what is actually affected it's really
16:19not much right like if you actually use
16:21this it's still there so you're not
16:22going to notice any change if you didn't
16:24use it well then it's not there but you
16:25didn't use it anyway if you want to use
16:27it you can easily go get it back so it's
16:29pretty minor in terms of the again
16:31Effectiveness the the bigger concern is
16:33just the you know what what exactly
16:35caused the decision to be made is that
16:37decision the best foot forward for Tesla
16:39which should be the decision that should
16:40be made if it's not then obviously that
16:43presents a problem in in terms of what
16:45that uh implication would be so we'll
16:47see uh you know I would I'm going to
16:50give Tesla more than a day to to kind of
16:52see what what happens here but we'll
16:54keep an eye on on that in general um and
16:58then the next few things we've got or I
16:59guess quick one here we heard today from
17:02a LinkedIn post I guess a few days ago I
17:03think soyer brought attention to this on
17:05X today that uh the LA sanitation
17:08department has added about a million
17:10dollars worth of model 3s uh 22
17:12different model 3S to their Fleet
17:15basically just because they found it to
17:16be the best allaround vehicle that they
17:19could add uh for those price points and
17:21a lot of things with the order process
17:23so highlighted the cost for the the
17:25range that they're getting highlighted
17:27the efficient ordering process from
17:28Tesla no restricted ordering Windows
17:30like they've seen on other Fleet orders
17:32in the past seamless communication with
17:34the Tesla team which is nice to see
17:36because often times an area that gets
17:37criticized for Tesla uh and fast
17:39delivery they say it only took 14 days
17:41to deliver all these vehicles after
17:43placing an online order compared to
17:45Legacy oems where in some cases could
17:47take 3 to 6 months plus a couple months
17:49for delivery um and then sitting on
17:51dealer lots for any sort of attention to
17:54Minor Details and things like that so uh
17:5614 days compared to that obviously night
17:58and day difference ultimately they said
18:00Legacy oems need to step up their game
18:02so just some nice props there from the
18:04LA Sanitation District and hopefully
18:06other Fleet buyers would take note of
18:10well and then we do have a couple of
18:12incentive updates we had previously
18:14talked about this possibility maybe a
18:15couple weeks ago uh but Germany has now
18:18ended their electric vehicle credit
18:20program based on some changes to their
18:22budget after uh Court ruling basically
18:26re repurposed or I guess
18:29cut some funds that were previously a
18:30part of the budget for um I guess green
18:33initiatives those have now been cut and
18:35as a part of that the EV subsidy has
18:37been cut as well and very suddenly there
18:39was only about a day or two notice here
18:41uh Tesla because of that has said that
18:43they are going to be honoring that
18:45subsidy Tesla compensating for it
18:47basically um out of Tesla's pocket until
18:50the end of the year which was originally
18:52kind of the earliest we thought this
18:53might change um and I think it stepped
18:55down at the beginning of the year so
18:57there was already sort of that urgency
18:58for buyers to maybe take delivery I
19:00think Tesla wanting to still take
19:02advantage of the urgency because they
19:03probably have a lot of people in that
19:04situation that were hoping to to do that
19:07uh and then of course with this going
19:08away next year it's probably going to
19:10create one of those demand Pockets that
19:11we talk about uh from time to time for
19:13buyers in Germany so I think that'll
19:16level out over time but obviously that
19:17puts margin pressure on Tesla here with
19:19having to compensate for that and longer
19:21term with the removal of the
19:24subsidies in Canada potentially a little
19:26bit better better news on the EV credit
19:28front uh this release from cbc.ca talks
19:31about Ottawa I think it is talking about
19:33a federal level though they say that CBC
19:35News has learned that Ottawa will
19:37release final regulations to ensure that
19:38all new Passenger cars sold in Canada by
19:402035 are zero Mission vehicles uh and
19:43they're going to help along with that
19:45process through the implementation of
19:47some EV credits it says manufacturers
19:50will earn those Credits based on uh the
19:51number of low or no emission Vehicles
19:53they sell uh those credits can be bought
19:55and sold um to you know other companies
19:59like we see many other regulatory credit
20:01structures work so they also point out
20:03that automakers can earn more credits if
20:05they help with building out EV charging
20:06infrastructure hopefully Tesla would be
20:09a party to earning some credits from
20:11that that part of the the structure as
20:13well uh and then again noting that they
20:15can you know purchase credits if they
20:17want so uh good to see that and this
20:21will sort of Step Up by year as we've
20:23seen again with other structures
20:25regulations are going to apply to model
20:26year 2026 so sort of of 2025 sales
20:29targets will increase each year till
20:312035 and uh model year model year 2026
20:362025 increasing till 2035 I don't know
20:39if I got the dates right on that the
20:40first time uh the federal government
20:42wants 20% of all vehicles sold to be
20:44zero emissions by 2026 uh that Target
20:46Rises to 60% by 2030 and then of course
20:48100% by 2035 so these credits will help
20:52create an incentive to do that and
20:53obviously Tesla well positioned to take
20:55advantage of those we should hear a
20:57little bit more about this uh later this
21:00week minor Point here but uh Automotive
21:03news via reuter reporting that the head
21:05of Nitsa uh has stepped down so this is
21:09right after of course the Tesla recall
21:12for the autopilot updates and things
21:13like that the headlines or description
21:15of this kind of pairs it it's it's
21:16really not paired I don't think because
21:19apparently she is stepping down because
21:21she was an acting head or a temporary
21:22head of the organization and they are
21:25limited to being able to be in that
21:26position for 2 years which we've now
21:28come to the end of um or getting close
21:31to coming to the end
21:32of I guess she's only run it since
21:34September 2022 I think I read that
21:36differently the first time I read this
21:37but um told employees she will leave her
21:40post on December 26th because of a law
21:42limiting how long officials can remain
21:43as temporary official so that seemed to
21:45be the reason um of the step down but of
21:48course just timing wise tied in a little
21:50bit with uh the Tesla recall and some
21:53today uh in terms of the implications
21:56tough to say you know could be good
21:57could be bad depends on whoever steps
21:59into that position in their opinions so
22:02we'll see on that and then lastly not
22:04specific to Tesla but an update on X
22:07here the European commission has
22:08announced that they are opening formal
22:10proceedings against X under the Digital
22:12Services act um so they're assessing
22:15whether or not X may have breached that
22:17act they say that the proceedings will
22:19focus on a number of different areas
22:20here each individually I thought were
22:22pretty interesting so we'll go through
22:24through these um they say the compliance
22:27with the DSA oblig related to countering
22:29the dissemination of legal content in
22:30the EU relating to some of the things
22:33that have gone on you know of course
22:34recently so just they also add including
22:37in light of x's content moderation
22:39resources that part I think focusing on
22:42just reports of you know um sorry
22:44reports of X reducing headcount on
22:47things like content moderation um X has
22:49pushed back on some of those but that's
22:51one of the areas that they're looking at
22:53uh they also say the effectiveness of
22:55measures taken to combat information
22:56manipulation on on the platform notably
22:59the effectiveness of x's so-called
23:01Community notes system in the EU and the
23:03effectiveness relating to related
23:04policies mitigating risk to Civic
23:06discourse and electoral processes this
23:09one's interesting because I I think
23:11Community notes in general is a pretty
23:13well-regarded system it's my impression
23:15of it at least um and certainly I have a
23:17favorable favorable opinion so I think
23:20seeing uh that as an area that's being
23:22investigated it does seem a little bit
23:24of a double stand standard because uh
23:27you know Community notes even if not
23:29perfect and no system is certainly seems
23:31like it would be better than the
23:32alternative alternative of not having a
23:34system like that which the vast majority
23:36of media or social media currently
23:39operates as um you know why why are they
23:42not being held to that standard if we're
23:44going to take a look at Community notes
23:46and say that you know there maybe some
23:47instances where things are incorrect or
23:49or manipulated or something like that um
23:51certainly there are things that are
23:53manipulated in other ways in other forms
23:55of media too so um not sure on that
23:58point the measures taken by X to
24:00increase the transparency of a platform
24:02of its platform the investigation
24:03concerns suspected shortcomings and
24:05giving researchers access to X's
24:07publicly accessible data as mandated by
24:09mandated by article 40 of the DSA as
24:12well as shortcomings in X's ads
24:14repository again this seems relatively
24:18nitpicky because I don't think there are
24:21many other social media platforms that
24:22have pretty much pretty much published
24:25their entire algorithm like X has um
24:28maybe there are some areas that they can
24:30improve that which fair enough if so um
24:33but again I think in general
24:35transparency from X's is probably quite
24:37a bit higher than than others uh and
24:40then they say a suspected deceptive
24:41design of the user interface notably in
24:43relation to check marks linked to
24:44certain subscription products the
24:45so-called blue checks uh deceptive
24:48design for having a blue check for
24:49someone that paid seems like a I don't
24:52know that that just seems blatantly
24:53wrong yes it's different than how it was
24:55before but the system is very clear so
24:57so uh I don't really see how there could
25:00possibly be an issue with that one but I
25:02guess we'll see so in general these
25:04don't seem the strongest to me um but
25:07we'll see what the you know what the
25:09proceeding comes up with all right
25:12that'll wrap it up for today kind of a
25:13long one but that'll wrap it up uh as
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