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by cyphar 1530 days ago
> This seems to be the #1 complaint about him. Honestly, so what? Since when is Twitter serious business?

His Twitter account is actually listed as a source of material information in a 2013 10-K Tesla SEC filing -- so his Twitter account in particular is serious business. He paid a $20m fine to the SEC for making a fake announcement in 2018 that he'd take Tesla private at $FUNNY_NUMBER[1] and has been sued by several people (including JP Morgan[2]) due to the associated losses of his fake announcement.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/claims/tesla.htm [2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/jpmorgan-sues-tesla-for-162-...