The comments from Tesla in the CNBC article were not about the accident in The Netherlands (where autopilot was not engaged) but about the earlier accident in Florida that caused Josh Brown's unfortunate death. Why are these journalists so sloppy?

The part about the death is indeed correct. It was a Dutch IT Entrepeneur who crashed into a tree on the Hilversumsestraatweg (N415). Tesla Netherlands was asked to investigate the logs and they declared that the card was driving at a speed of around 160 km/h (on an 80 km/h road) and that autopilot was not activated when the crash occurred. Here's one news item about the crash: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/neder...