That honestly sounds like a typical corporate smear attempt - vague, hard to (dis)prove accusations with no proof whatsoever presented.

Tesla/Elon have a track report of egregiously lying when it comes to whistleblowers or people they don't like. That includes an obviously fake shooter threat that could have killed one whistleblower [0] and Elon very publicly accusing an innocent man of being a pedophile.

I'm going to side with the whistleblower until proven otherwise.

[0] https://medium.com/bloomberg-businessweek/when-elon-musk-tri...