Comment by ctvo

This would be Google creating a static page of results and pretending they had crawled the data when they demo’d submitting a query.

Uber manually arranging a driver / passenger pick up and animating a vehicle on the map along a predefined route, etc. etc.

It’s edgy to say startups do this, but there hasn’t been a startup conducting this level of fraud so openly since Theranos. And Nikola is a publicly traded company valued at billions.