Brisbane, Australia
CNN
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When friends Neon and Zane started a campaign to stop Tesla from building a battery recycling factory on a small block in their local area, they suspected that strong views about the company’s billionaire boss might help sway local opinion.
But they had no idea how much, or how far, anti-Elon Musk sentiment had spread beyond the epicenter of his influence in the United States, where until recently he caused chaos in federal workplaces as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Neon and Zane, who asked to use aliases to avoid doxxing by Musk supporters, say the main aim of their campaign, “Trees Not Teslas,” was to preserve…