A lot of their analyst are mainly people that write a story to get clicks. Positive stories never get clicks. If they want to retain subscribers or want to get new subscribers, the best way is to write controversial stories. Also note that a few of the analyst that write negative stories are shorters themselves so it is in their best interest to write horse crap about Tesla even though the company is doing a lot.
Seeking Alpha is a blog site.
Anyone who wants to blog on their site sets up an account and then asks to be a "published" blogger. When I went through this process, roughly 50% of people were accepted to submit blogs for "publishing". That's not 50% of a pool of analysts or journalists... but 50% of whoever showed up and asked (fwiw, they gave me the thumbs up when I asked about 4-5 years ago).
Seeking Alpha has an explicit policy of
not doing any fact checking of the blogs they "publish."
A few years ago, the Yahoo Finance news feed for TSLA was filled daily with loud and false narrative fiction about Tesla in the form of Seeking Alpha blogs. I discussed this with Tesla's VP of HR. He indicated Tesla had looked at the Seeking Alpha phenomena, and his comments suggested that they found the no fact checking policy to be a conscious strategy to avoid legal responsibility.
Yahoo Finance has not included SA in their news feed for a few years now. These blogs still show up prominently on Google searches for TSLA at the very top of the results (just under a graphic with the stock price and daily chart) under "Top Stories." To my view this gives the false impression that these blogs are news stories which I consider a current error/limitation of Google. Perhaps we could try to see this addressed by reaching out to Tesla and expressing our concern about this error (as you may well know, Elon has known Larry and Sergey for a very long time, and is quite a close friend of Larry's).
Of course, so much of what used to be considered financial journalism from reputable sources (The Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Forbes, and many others), is often as misleading as the blogs on Tesla one finds at Seeking Alpha. I suppose if you are a Seeking Alpha supporter, you could say, the gap between SA and the top historical names of financial journalism is swiftly closing, lols.