{"id":996595,"date":"2026-03-06T08:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996595"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:44:01","slug":"elon-musk-defends-tweets-in-lawsuit-alleging-they-caused-twitter-stock-to-fall-before-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/elon-musk-defends-tweets-in-lawsuit-alleging-they-caused-twitter-stock-to-fall-before-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk defends tweets in lawsuit alleging they caused Twitter stock to fall before acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk continued to defend his actions in the months leading up to his 2022 purchase of Twitter in court Thursday as he faces a class action lawsuit claiming he misled investors and caused them to lose millions of dollars. <\/p>\n<p>The civil trial in San Francisco centres on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, a social media service he renamed X, in October 2022, six months after agreeing to buy the embattled company for USD 44 billion, or USD 54.20 per share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk continued to defend his actions in the months leading up to his 2022 purchase of Twitter in court Thursday as he faces a class action lawsuit claiming he misled investors and caused them to lose millions of dollars. The civil trial in San Francisco centres on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, a social media service he renamed X, in October 2022, six months after agreeing to buy the embattled company for USD 44 billion, or USD 54.20 per share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}