Musk charged with securities fraud over 'funding secured' Tesla privatisation tweets

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Musk's tweets intended to impress girlfriend Grimes, SEC claims

Elon Musk was last night charged with securities fraud by the SEC, who claimed that his August tweets over taking electric car maker Tesla private were "false and misleading tweets" and had caused ...

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