First lawsuits filed over Elon Musk's Tesla privatisation tweets

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Short-sellers burnt by Musk's "false and misleading" tweets the first to file suit

Tesla is facing its first lawsuits over Elon Musk's share-price-boosting claims over Twitter that he is planning to take the company private. The lawsuits have been launched by two short sellers...

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