Tech In Depth

‘Teflon Musk’ Rises Again in Twitter Deal With SEC

Billionaire pays $1.5 million in settlement over disclosures of Twitter stock purchases

Elon Musk arrives in March at federal court in San Francisco to testify in a lawsuit filed by Twitter shareholders over his stock purchases before he acquired the social media company.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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By Kurt Wagner

May 7, 2026 at 11:02 AM UTC

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner reports on Elon Musk’s settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over his purchase of Twitter.

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