'If this was a trial about whether I made stupid tweets I would say I'm guilty' says Elon Musk in trial before being found guilty

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Musk had testified he did not believe his tweets were misleading, but conceded, “If this was a trial about whether I made stupid tweets, I would say I’m guilty.” Sometimes the headlines write themselves.The jury found that, while Musk did not deliberately set out to defraud shareholders, two of his tweets from 2022 were materially false or misleading, and caused some investors to sell shares at below the eventual $54.20 per share that Musk paid for the social media company. The tweets in question are from May 13th and May 27th, 2022, and read as follows:May 13th, 2022: Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usersArticle continues below You may like Man pleads guilty to generating songs with AI then having bots stream them ‘billions of times’ to make over $8 million in royalties Judge denies interim pay for fired Rockstar employees, but the decision ‘does nothing to suggest that Rockstar will not be found guilty of unfair dismissal when the case goes to trial,’ union says Crypto scammer who reportedly stole at least $73 million through social media,