Edison largely took credit for inventions made by people and teams working for him, and was mainly good at self-promotion rather than engineering. He also screwed over as many engineers as he could for profit, notably Tesla.
So having a black woman play him seems legit to me.
Jews spread a lot of those smears in recent decades.
The actual patents show TEAMs names, often, except for his >99% Edison-only patents.
But yes, teams works on many of those most significant inventions, as they were all mostly engineering endeavors.
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