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| birth_place = [[Elkins, West Virginia]], U.S.
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'''Linette Lopez''' (born {{Circa|1986}})<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=September 9, 2016 |title=#20: Talking Hustle, and Curiosity, with Linette Lopez |url=https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/The-Motivation-Inside-(TMI)-p923193/?topicId=140949297 |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=The Motivation Inside with [[Anthony Scaramucci]]}}</ref> is an American journalist who focuses on U.S. politics and economics, and writes columns for ''[[Business Insider]]''. As a senior finance editor, she has investigated companies involved with public-facing controversies, and is most widely known for her coverage of [[Tesla, Inc.|Tesla, Inc]].<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":4" /> A regular contributor to ''[[Marketplace (radio program)|Marketplace]]'' produced by [[American Public Media]], Lopez teaches as an adjunct professor at the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Agenda – Authors – Linette Lopez |url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/linette-lopez |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=[[World Economic Forum]]}}</ref> She has also been a frequent commentator on [[CNN]], [[MSNBC]], and ''[[Real Time with Bill Maher]]''.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Meet Our Panelists |url=https://www.cgjw.org/socialmedia |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=Common Ground with Jane Whitney}}</ref>
 
In 2017, Lopez was recognized as a "Rising Star" in the Folio: Top Women in Media honors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Folio: Top Women in Media – The 2017 Class of Honorees |url=https://www.foliomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/folio-top-women-in-media-awards-program-2017-web.pdf |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=Folio Magazine}}</ref> In 2020, she received the Excellence in Financial Journalism Award from the New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) for her opinion piece, “The Huawei indictment marks the end of US and China’sChina's cycle of trust”.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 1, 2020 |title=NYSSCPA Announces the 2020 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award Winners |url=https://www.nysscpa.org/cpe/press-room/press-releases/release/nysscpa-announces-the-2020-excellence-in-financial-journalism-award-winners |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=New York State Society of CPAs}}</ref>
 
In June 2023, Lopez was awarded the [[New York Press Club|New York Press Club Award for Journalism]] for her article, "The Stock Market Had It Coming".<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023 |title=Winners Announced in 30+ Categories |work=[[New York Press Club]] |url=https://www.nypressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023NYPCAWARDS.pdf |access-date=2023-06-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Turner |first=Matt |date=May 14, 2023 |title=An obituary for the Metaverse, the latest fad to join the tech graveyard |work=Business Insider |url=https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/markets/an-obituary-for-the-metaverse-the-latest-fad-to-join-the-tech-graveyard/ar-AA1bbhxY?li=BBr5Fap |access-date=2023-06-11 |via=MSN.com}}</ref>
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The daughter of immigrants from the [[Dominican Republic]], Lopez was born in [[Elkins, West Virginia]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=November 1, 2020 |title=Episode #50: Linette Lopez |url=https://www.owltail.com/people/a6DOo-linette-lopez/appearances |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=The Chartcast with TC and Georgia}}</ref> She is fluent in Spanish.<ref name=":4" /> Her father was a physician who did his residency in [[Buffalo, New York]].<ref name=":4" /> She went to [[State College Area High School]] in [[State College, Pennsylvania]].<ref name=":4" />
 
Lopez studied history and sociology at [[Columbia University]],<ref name=":4" /> completingand received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2008.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Linette Lopez - Author Biography |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/linette-lopez |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=Entrepreneur |language=en}}</ref> She was a press intern for New York mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]], and worked for one year for New York state senator [[Jeffrey D. Klein|Jeff Klein]].<ref name=":4" /> Deciding to pursue a career in journalism, she went back to the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia]].<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Senior Fund {{!}} Columbia College Today |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/jan_feb08/around_the_quads_7 |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}}</ref> In graduate school, she studied business, wrote about underground music, and investigated misinformation eminatingemanating from Russia.,<ref name=":4" /> and completed her degree in 2011.<ref name=":5" />
 
== Career ==
Lopez was an early employee at ''[[Business Insider]]'', joining in 2011 as a markets intern.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /> She became a breaking news reporter and covered [[Occupy Wall Street]].<ref name=":4" /> Lopez went on to take over as editor of the finance section, and started covering corporate fraud,.<ref andname=":4" has/> mostMore recently, she has worked as a columnist at ''Business Insider''.<ref name=":4" />
 
According to ''Common Ground by Jane Whitney'', which has featured Lopez as a panelist, her willingness to "[take] on titans in tech, politics, and business" ranging from [[Mark Zuckerberg]] to [[Donald Trump]] has made her the target of "intimidatory social media campaigns that have become all too familiar to 21st century journalists".<ref name=":7" />
 
=== Coverage of Elon Musk's businesses ===
At ''Insider'', Lopez covered entrepreneur [[Elon Musk]]'s businesses, exposing issues including alleged safety lapses at [[Tesla, Inc.]]<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> She also questioned the ethics and motivation behind some of his financial transactions, such as his 2016 bailout of [[SolarCity]], a company founded by his cousins which had accumulated massive debt.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |url=https://ia902301.us.archive.org/11/items/gov.uscourts.cand.359812/gov.uscourts.cand.359812.76.3.pdf |title=Reality Check: Tesla, Inc. |publisher=[[PlainSite]] |date=January 7, 2020 |pages=9–10}}</ref>
At ''Insider'', Lopez covered entrepreneur [[Elon Musk]]'s businesses, exposing issues including alleged safety lapses at [[Tesla, Inc.]]<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> In 2018, she wrote that Tesla had stopped performing a brake test on its [[Tesla Model 3|Model 3 electric sedan]], in an effort to accelerate production at its assembly line, which had been fraught with problems.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Russ |date=July 17, 2018 |title=Elon Musk is at war with everyone from regulators to stock analysts to a Thai child rescuer |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-musk-meltdown-20180717-story.html |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref> In 2020, she wrote articles accusing Tesla of selling the [[Tesla Model S|Model S]], despite being aware of a battery design flaw that could lead to fires as early as 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ruffo |first=Gustavo Enrique |date=June 26, 2020 |title=Did Tesla Hide A Model S Battery Issue Since 2012 That Could Cause Fires? |work=InsideEVs |url=https://insideevs.com/news/431046/tesla-model-s-battery-pack-cooling-fire/ |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ruffo |first=Gustavo Henrique |date=July 2, 2020 |title=Tesla Hacker Says Model S Cooling Coil Issue Accusation Is Ridiculous |work=InsideEVs |url=https://insideevs.com/news/431996/tesla-hacker-model-s-coil-accusation-ridiculous/ |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref> Her coverage of Tesla specifically ended in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-17 |title=Twitter lifts suspensions on several journalists amid rift between the site and media |url=https://www.witf.org/2022/12/17/twitter-lifts-suspensions-on-several-journalists-amid-rift-between-the-site-and-media/ |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=WITF |language=en}}</ref>
 
In 2018, Lopez wrote that Tesla had stopped performing a brake test on its [[Tesla Model 3|Model 3 electric sedan]], in an effort to accelerate production at its assembly line, which had been fraught with problems.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Russ |date=July 17, 2018 |title=Elon Musk is at war with everyone from regulators to stock analysts to a Thai child rescuer |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-musk-meltdown-20180717-story.html |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref> In 2019, she wrote that she had "counted at least 20 reported incidents of Teslas catching on fire since 2013 and five deaths in the past 14 months".<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Lopez |first=Linette |date=April 26, 2019 |title=Life, death, and spontaneous combustion — here's why the debate about Tesla fires just got more fierce |work=[[Business Insider]] |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/why-tesla-cars-catch-on-fire-2019-4 |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref>
 
In 2020, Lopez wrote articles accusing Tesla of selling the [[Tesla Model S|Model S]], despite being aware of a battery design flaw that could lead to fires as early as 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ruffo |first=Gustavo Enrique |date=June 26, 2020 |title=Did Tesla Hide A Model S Battery Issue Since 2012 That Could Cause Fires? |work=InsideEVs |url=https://insideevs.com/news/431046/tesla-model-s-battery-pack-cooling-fire/ |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite news |last=Ruffo |first=Gustavo Henrique |date=July 2, 2020 |title=Tesla Hacker Says Model S Cooling Coil Issue Accusation Is Ridiculous |work=InsideEVs |url=https://insideevs.com/news/431996/tesla-hacker-model-s-coil-accusation-ridiculous/ |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref> Although industry observers such as ''[[Motorsport Network|InsideEVs]]'' expressed skepticism because Lopez had chosen not to publish the two analysis reports written by external engineering firms which concluded that the aluminum used in manufacturing was prone to cracks, [[Russ Mitchell]] of ''[[Los Angeles Times|The Los Angeles Times]]'' subsequently confirmed the claims in her ''Business Insider'' story after reviewing the contents of the emails and documents, and interviewing his own sources.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Russ |author-link=Russ Mitchell |date=July 1, 2020 |title=Tesla battery cooling system is subject of federal safety probe |work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-07-01/federal-safety-officials-probe-tesla-battery-cooling-system |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref> Her coverage of Tesla specifically ended in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-17 |title=Twitter lifts suspensions on several journalists amid rift between the site and media |url=https://www.witf.org/2022/12/17/twitter-lifts-suspensions-on-several-journalists-amid-rift-between-the-site-and-media/ |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=WITF |language=en}}</ref>
 
=== Retaliation by Musk ===
In 2018, Musk openly disputed Lopez's reporting by claiming that she had written "several false articles".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Kirsch |first=Noah |date=2022-12-16 |title=Musk Suspends Reporter Who Has Investigated Him for Years |language=en |work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-suspends-insiders-linette-lopez-another-reporter-who-pissed-him-off |access-date=2022-12-17}}</ref> He also falsely claimed Lopez was on the payroll of [[Short (finance)|short sellers]] betting against Tesla and, in the case of [[List of lawsuits involving Tesla, Inc.#Martin Tripp leak and hacking|Martin Tripp's whistleblowing]], paid bribes to Tripp to steal company secrets.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-03-13 |title=What Happened When Elon Musk Set Out to Destroy a Junior Engineer |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp |access-date=2022-12-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-12-28 |title=Ex-Worker To Pay $400K To End Tesla 'Saboteur' Feud |language=en-US |work=Law360, republished on lawyer blog |url=https://www.mcdonaldcarano.com/news/ex-worker-to-pay-400k-to-end-tesla-saboteur-feud/ |access-date=2023-06-01}}</ref> Writing for ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', Felix Salmon said in 2018 that "Musk's historyharassment of retaliation against Lopez hasis beenobsessive observedand deranged" and calledthat outit went beyond stalking, because he was "setting his army of fanboys loose on Lopez".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Salmon |first=Felix |date=2018-07-06 |title=Elon Musk Needs to Stop Tweeting Things He Can't Prove |language=en-US |work=Slate |url=https://slate.com/business/2018/07/elon-musks-attacks-on-reporter-linette-lopez-need-to-stop.html |access-date=2023-05-30 |issn=1091-2339}}</ref>
 
Later inIn 2022, Lopez's Twitter account was suspended<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/suspended-journalist-on-why-elon-musk-s-personality-makes-him-ill-suited-to-run-twitter-157961285583 |publisher= MSNBC |series= Alex Wagner Tonight |author1-link=Alex Wagner |first= Alex |last= Wagner |title= Suspended (from Twitter by Musk) journalist on why Elon Musk's personality makes him ill-suited to run Twitter |date= Dec 17, 2022 }}</ref> following the [[December 15, 2022 Twitter suspensions|December 15, 2022 Twitter suspensions of many journalists]], whom Musk accused of [[doxing]] his whereabouts.<ref>{{Cite web |datename=2022-12-19 |title=Business Insider journalist brands Elon Musk a 'hypocrite' as her Twitter account remains suspended without explanation |url=https"://finance.yahoo.com/news/business-insider-journalist-brands-elon-065909184.html2" |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=Yahoo Finance |language=en-US}}</ref> Her account remained blocked without explanation after other journalists had theirs reinstated days later.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Zhuang |first1=Yan |last2=Ward |first2=Euan |date=2022-12-17 |title=Twitter Reinstates Suspended Accounts of Several Journalists |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/business/media/twitter-reinstates-accounts.html |access-date=2023-05-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Singh |first=Namita |date=December 19, 2022 |title=Business Insider journalist brands Elon Musk a ‘hypocrite’'hypocrite' as her Twitter account remains suspended without explanation |work=The Independent |url=https://wwwfinance.independent.coyahoo.ukcom/technews/business-insider-journalist-elonbrands-muskelon-hypocrite-b2247760065909184.html |access-date=2023-06-11 |via=Yahoo! Finance}}</ref> According to Lopez, her account had been suspended after sharing court documents on Twitter alleging that Musk had hacked and doxed people.<ref name=":2" /> Several journalists and researchers tweeted their support for Lopez, noting that she had been "early & tireless in reporting issues at Musk's companies" and highlighting her past coverage.<ref name=":2" />
 
== Selected articles ==
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* Lopez, Linette (October 14, 2011). "Occupy Wall Street's Plans for a National Convention". ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette (October 14, 2011). "Another Huge Weekend: Occupy Wall Street Is Coming to Your Neighborhood". ''[[CNBC]]''.
* Lopez, Linette (October 20, 2011). "The Occupy Wall Street TV Ad Could Actually Air on TV". ''[[The Atlantic]].''
* Johnson, Robert and Lopez, Linette (November 14, 2011). "This Weekend's Occupy Crackdowns May Be The Beginning Of The End For Protest Groups". ''Business Insider''.
* Jonnson, Robert and Lopez, Linette (November 15, 2011). "This Week's Occupy Evictions Were Systematically Plotted By The Nation's Mayors." ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette and Du, Lisa (May 1, 2012). "Occupy Wall Street Has Gathered In Union Square, And The Demonstration Looks HUGE". ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette (January 16, 2014). "How Occupy Wall Street Won in One Chart". ''Business Insider.''
 
=== Tesla ===
 
* Lopez, Linette (June 4, 2018). "Internal documents reveal Tesla is blowing through an insane amount of raw material and cash to make Model 3s, and production is still a nightmare". ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette (July 3, 2018). "Elon Musk ordered Tesla engineers to stop doing a critical brake test on Model 3s". ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette (April 26, 2019). "Life, death, and spontaneous combustion — here's why the debate about Tesla fires just got more fierce". ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, LInetteLinette (JuneMay 2422, 20202019). "TeslaOne knewof itsTesla's Modelbiggest Sbulls batteryjust hadturned a design flaw that could lead to leaksaround and ultimatelytrashed fires,the startingcompany inon 2012.a Itprivate soldcall thewith carWall anyway.Street". ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette (JuneOctober 2530, 20202019). "Leaked Tesla[https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-solarcity-merger-frenzied-plan-new-filings-show-2019-10 emailsThe tell the storyfuture of aElon designMusk's flawempire discoveredwas in 2012peril in the2016, Modeland Snew batterydocuments thatreveal couldmore leadabout tothe breakdownsdesperate andplan to save firesit]". ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette (June 24, 2020). "[https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-faulty-battery-cooling-systems-design-model-s-2012-2019-6#:~:text=Tesla%20knew%20its%20Model%20S%20cars%20were%20equipped%20with%20a,company%20sold%20the%20cars%20anyway. Tesla knew its Model S battery had a design flaw that could lead to leaks and ultimately fires, starting in 2012. It sold the car anyway]." ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette (June 25, 2020). "[https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-leaked-emails-show-company-knew-model-s-battery-issues-2020-6 Leaked Tesla emails tell the story of a design flaw discovered in 2012 in the Model S battery that could lead to breakdowns and fires]". ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette (December 1, 2020). "[https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/the-bizarre-case-of-elon-musk-and-the-tesla-whistleblower-has-closed-but-questions-about-millions-of-dollars-wasted-at-the-gigafactory-remain/articleshow/79520386.cms The bizarre case of Elon Musk and the Tesla whistleblower has closed, but questions about millions of dollars wasted at the Gigafactory remain]". ''Business Insider''.
* Lopez, Linette (December 10, 2023). "[https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-problems-twitter-x-tesla-gamble-luck-run-out-2023-12 Elon Musk's luck has finally run out]". ''Business Insider''.
 
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== External links ==
* https://www.insider.com/author/linette-lopez
* {{cite web |url= https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/suspended-journalist-on-why-elon-musk-s-personality-makes-him-ill-suited-to-run-twitter-157961285583 |publisher= MSNBC |series= Alex Wagner Tonight |display-authors= 0 |first= Alex |last= Wagner |title= Suspended (from Twitter by Musk) journalist on why Elon Musk's personality makes him ill-suited to run Twitter |date= Dec 17, 2022 }}
 
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