Elon Musk took the stand Friday in a trial over investor losses allegedly caused by his tweets proposing to take Tesla private, quickly focusing on the structural limitations of communicating on Twitter
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is testifying in a federal trial over tweets from 2018 in which he floated the possibility of taking the company private. WSJ’s Rebecca Elliott explains what to know about the trial. Illustration: Adele Morganinvestor losses
allegedly caused by his tweets proposing to take Tesla Inc. private and quickly focused on the structural limitations of communicating on Twitter. The platform where Mr. Musk typed two now-infamous words on Aug. 7, 2018—“funding secured”—limits the length of tweets.
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