Elon Musk’s long-running battle with Tesla short sellers is the stuff of legend at this point.
The majority of his crusade has been waged on Twitter, where he’s repeatedly taunted the futility of short sellers and decried their mere existence. In a Rolling Stone profile last year, he called them “jerks who want us to die.” He’s even called their behavior flat-out illegal.
But Tesla’s short-seller landscape has undergone some big changes in the last few weeks, to the point that it’s almost unrecognizable from the pessimistic wasteland that it once was.
