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Regulators are trying to get Elon Musk to run his tweets by lawyers. It's not working.

What can the Securities and Exchange Commission really do to stop the Tesla chief's market-moving tweets?

TESLA CEO Elon Musk got into hot water with regulators back in 2018 for infamously tweeting about taking the company private at a nice round stock price of US$420. Their censure hasn't stopped his tweets.

Despite being fined US$40 million, losing his Tesla chairmanship, and being ordered to run tweets by Tesla's lawyers, Mr Musk continued to tweet things that moved his company's stock price without conferring with the company's counsel, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

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