Twitter investors sue Elon Musk for stock 'manipulation' during takeover bid

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Twitter investors sue Elon Musk for stock 'manipulation' during takeover bid
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Twitter investors sue Elon Musk for stock 'manipulation' during takeover bid

The lawsuit comes as Tesla CEO abandons plan to use a margin loan tied to his Tesla stake to partly finance Twitter acquisition

Twitter investors have sued Elon Musk for failing to disclose his stake in the firm and behaving unlawfully in his $44 billion (£34.9 billion) takeover bid for the microblogging network. Investo...

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