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Jury: Musk didn’t defraud investors with 2018 Tesla tweets

Nicholas Porritt, left, a lawyer representing Tesla shareholders in a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk, leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A jury on Friday decided Musk did not deceive investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Adam Apton, center, a lawyer representing Tesla shareholders in a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk, speaks to reporters while leaving a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A jury on Friday decided Musk did not deceive investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) In this courtroom sketch, Vicky Ayala, standing, reads the verdict in the class action lawsuit against Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk in federal court in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (Vicki Behringer via AP) Alex Spiro, attorney for Elon Musk, leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A jury on Friday decided Musk did not deceive investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Nicholas Porritt, a lawyer representing Tesla shareholders in a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk, leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A jury on Friday decided Musk did not deceive investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Alex Spiro, left, attorney for Elon Musk, leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A jury on Friday decided Musk did not deceive investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Nicholas Porritt, a lawyer for the Tesla shareholders, standing at left, makes his closing arguments as Judge Edward M. Chen, top center, and Elon Musk, bottom right, watch in federal court in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (Vicki Behringer via AP) Nicholas Porritt, a lawyer for the Tesla shareholders, standing at left, makes his closing arguments as Judge Edward M. Chen, top center, and Elon Musk, bottom right, watch in federal court in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (Vicki Behringer via AP) Max Weiss, an attorney for the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk, loads a chart and equipment into a vehicle while leaving federal court in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A high-profile trial focused on a 2018 tweet about the financing for a Tesla buyout that never happened drew a surprise spectator for Friday's final arguments — Elon Musk, the billionaire who is being accused of misleading investors with his usage of the Twitter service he now owns. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) In this courtroom sketch, Elon Musk appears in federal court in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (Vicki Behringer via AP) Elon Musk leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A high-profile trial focused on a 2018 tweet about the financing for a Tesla buyout that never happened drew a surprise spectator for Friday's final arguments — Musk, the billionaire who is being accused of misleading investors with his usage of the Twitter service he now owns. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Elon Musk, center, leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A high-profile trial focused on a 2018 tweet about the financing for a Tesla buyout that never happened drew a surprise spectator for Friday's final arguments — Elon Musk, the billionaire who is being accused of misleading investors with his usage of the Twitter service he now owns. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Elon Musk, right, leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A high-profile trial focused on a 2018 tweet about the financing for a Tesla buyout that never happened drew a surprise spectator for Friday's final arguments -- Musk, the billionaire who is being accused of misleading investors with his usage of the Twitter service he now owns. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Elon Musk, middle, leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A high-profile trial focused on a 2018 tweet about the financing for a Tesla buyout that never happened drew a surprise spectator for Friday's final arguments: Elon Musk, the billionaire who is being accused of misleading investors with his usage of the Twitter service he now owns. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Elon Musk, right, leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A high-profile trial focused on a 2018 tweet about the financing for a Tesla buyout that never happened drew a surprise spectator for Friday's final arguments -- Musk, the billionaire who is being accused of misleading investors with his usage of the Twitter service he now owns. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) In this courtroom sketch, Elon Musk, center, sits next to attorney Alex Spiro, left, in federal court in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (Vicki Behringer via AP) In this courtroom sketch, Elon Musk appears in federal court in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (Vicki Behringer via AP) FILE - Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco on Jan. 24, 2023. On Wednesday, Feb. 1, Sam Teller, Musk's former chief of staff, testified that the billionaire believed he had a "handshake deal" to take Tesla private in 2018 shortly before he tweeted he had the financing for an aborted buyout that is still haunting him in a high-profile trial. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy, File)
Jury: Musk didn’t defraud investors with 2018 Tesla tweets