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The business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 27, 2022. Musk had begun buying shares of the company in January 2022, becoming its largest shareholder by April with a 9.1 percent ownership stake.
The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk in federal court on Tuesday for allegedly misleading shareholders when he bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Twitter stock in ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Elon Musk, accusing the owner of X of failing to properly disclose his purchases of Twitter stock prior to his acquisition of ...
The lawsuit from the SEC against Musk is essentially about him not disclosing his purchase of a large portion of Twitter’s stock in the months before he announced his intention to buy the company.
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and X, formerly Twitter (which he has owned since 2022). Since 2025, he has been a senior advisor to President Donald Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency .
Musk started buying shares of Twitter, which he later renamed X, in early 2022. By mid-March, he'd acquired ownership of more than 5% of the company's outstanding stock, according to the SEC filing.
Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter in October 2022; Musk acted as CEO of Twitter until June 2023 when he was succeeded by Linda Yaccarino.In a move that, despite Yaccarino's accession, was widely attributed to Musk, [1] [2] Twitter was rebranded to X on July 23, 2023, [3] and its domain name changed from twitter.com to x.com on May 17, 2024.
Elon Musk is being sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, claiming he didn't disclose purchases of Twitter stock in 2022 immediately, allowing him to underpay.