Jury sides with Elon Musk over 2018 tweets claiming he would take Tesla private
by Kari Paul and Erin McCormick in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#68GRH)
The verdict comes after a three-week trial that pitted shareholders against the billionaire and company CEO
Elon Musk and Tesla have been cleared of wrongdoing in a lawsuit over a pair of tweets from the executive that investors say cost them billions of dollars.
After less than two hours of deliberation wrapping up a three-week trial, a jury in San Francisco ruled on Friday that the Tesla CEO had not deceived investors with two tweets posted in August 2018 about a Tesla buyout that never happened.
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