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by javagram 2671 days ago
Musk and his lawyers agreed to the terms of the settlement.

The only reason he had to settle in the first place was because he tweeted false, market-moving information via twitter. Maybe Elon should have considered the consequences then.

Why didn’t he just hand over his twitter password to a social media manager and stop tweeting once he lost millions of dollars over the last tweet?

3 comments

Hubris.
Why didn't the lawyers and board require it?
The former work for him, and he controls the latter. The "independent" board member Tesla added after signing the agreement was non other than Larry Ellison
Clearly, he doesn't care that much.