US judge determines Elon Musk’s 2018 tweets were inaccurate and reckless
by Reuters from Technology | The Guardian on (#5Z4BS)
Tesla's CEO had tweeted that the company had secured financing from Saudi Arabia and would be taken private
A US judge has determined that Elon Musk's 2018 tweets that funding had been secured to take electric car maker Tesla private was inaccurate and reckless, saying there was nothing concrete" about financing from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund at that time.
San Francisco-based US district judge Edward Chen's pre-trial decision represented a major victory for investors in a lawsuit accusing the world's richest person of inflating stock prices by making false and misleading statements, causing billions of dollars in damages.
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