“Funding secured,” tweeted Elon Musk back in August 2018 announcing a potential deal to take Tesla private at $420 a share.

“Not true,” is essentially what Senior U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco ruled last year on summary judgment in a securities class action centering on the tweet finding it and a follow-up sent hours later were false and reckless.

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