NEW DELHI: US securities watchdog told Tesla Inc last year that chief executive officer Elon Musk‘s use of Twitter had twice violated a settlement requiring his tweets to be preapproved by company lawyers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission had ordered the electric car maker to vet any material public communications Musk made regarding Tesla, following Musk’s August 2018 tweet that he had “funding secured” to possibly take Tesla private in a $72 billion transaction.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission had ordered the electric car maker to vet any material public communications Musk made regarding Tesla, following Musk’s August 2018 tweet that he had “funding secured” to possibly take Tesla private in a $72 billion transaction.
Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 1533660493000
In correspondence sent to Tesla in 2019 and 2020, the SEC said tweets Musk wrote about Tesla’s solar roof production volumes and its stock price were not preapproved by Tesla’s lawyers, the Journal reported, citing records of communication that have not been previously reported.
“Tesla has abdicated the duties required of it by the court’s order,” the WSJ reported, citing a letter signed by a senior SEC official.
The SEC and Tesla were not immediately available for comment.
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