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Elon Musk must face class action over late disclosure of Twitter stake, judge rules

The judge said Musk did not overcome the presumption that his alleged misrepresentations affected Twitter’s share price

The amount of damages he must pay to individual investors will be determined at a later date when shareholders submit claims.

Musk misled Twitter investors before 2022 buyout, jury says

[SAN FRANCISCO] Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original US$44 billion bid, a jury...

“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk said in a post on the platform, which was working sporadically as the day wore on.

Musk says X hit by major cyberattack

[SAN FRANCISCO] Elon Musk said X was hit on Monday by a major cyberattack, raising questions as to whether the politically divisive billionaire is being targeted or his decision to gut staff at what w...

In a complaint filed in Washington, D.C. federal court, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said Elon Musk violated federal securities law by waiting 11 days too long to disclose his initial purchase of 5 per cent of Twitter’s common shares.

US SEC sues Elon Musk over late disclosure of Twitter stake

ELON Musk was sued on Tuesday by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the world’s richest person of waiting too long to disclose in 2022 he had amassed a large stake in Twitter, th...

The change is the latest in a series of updates Elon Musk has made to the platform since buying it for US$44 billion in 2022. 

Why X is hiding which posts you ‘like’ from other users

USERS of Elon Musk’s X can no longer see which social media posts their fellow X users “like.” X’s engineering team said the change is meant to protect user privacy. 

Offices for Twitter in San Francisco, on Oct. 6, 2022.

Big Tech, big layoffs – the tally so far

This story and chart was updated on May 17, 2023.

Elon Musk is also in the middle of a regulatory probe to determine whether he broke federal securities laws in 2022 when he bought stock in social media platform Twitter, which he later renamed X. 

Tesla shareholder sues Musk for alleged US$7.5 billion insider trading

A TESLA shareholder filed a lawsuit on Thursday (May 30) accusing CEO Elon Musk of insider trading when he sold over US$7.5 billion of shares of the electric car maker in late 2022, saying the billion...

The investigation concerns whether Elon Musk broke federal securities laws in 2022 when he bought stock in Twitter, which he later renamed X.

Elon Musk ordered to testify again in US SEC probe of Twitter takeover

A US Federal court ordered on Tuesday that Elon Musk must testify again in the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into his US$44 billion takeover of Twitter.

Elon Musk terminated former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde and former chief financial officer Ned Segal  from their posts in late October of 2022 after closing his contentious US$44 billion takeover of Twitter.

Ex-Twitter executives sue Musk for unpaid severance

FORMER top executives of Twitter sued Elon Musk on Monday saying he has failed to pay them nearly US$130 million after the billionaire took over the social media company and dismissed them.