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by polygamous_bat 1177 days ago
Yes, if you publicly claim things that are not true and it causes a company's share price to go down, the shareholders can sue you for damages. For example, [0] shows how Elon got sued by twitter shareholders for his "bot" claims.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-01/musk-sued...