Musk forces Judge’s exit from shareholder battles over viral social media slip-up - Teslarati
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TL;DR
Reports differ across sources; according to finance.yahoo.com, elon Musk Found Liable By Jury For Misleading Twitter Investors In $44 Billion Deal, Faces Potential $2.5 Billion Damages On Friday, a federal jury in San Francisco determined that Elon Musk made misleading statements about the number of spam and bot accounts on Twitter shortly after agreeing to acquire the company for $44 billion in April 2022.
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