Musk found not liable in Tesla tweet trial

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 04, 2023 8:39 am

JURORS on Friday cleared Elon Musk of liability for investors' losses in a fraud trial over his 2018 tweets falsely claiming that he had funding in place to take Tesla private.

ON THE DEFENSIVE Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023 (January 25 in Manila), as he returned to federal court to defend himself against a class-action lawsuit that alleges he misled Tesla shareholders with a tweet about an aborted buyout that the billionaire defiantly insisted Tuesday he could have pulled off, had he wanted. AP PHOTO

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