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RARE PHOTOS: Jury clears elon musk of wrongdoing over 2018 tesla tweets | Rare Historical Photos

Elon Musk leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco on February 3, where jurors cleared him of wrongdoing in a class-action lawsuit brought by Tesla investors over an inaccurate claim Musk made [Jeff Chiu/AP Photo]

A jury in the United States has decided that Elon Musk did not deceive investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla.

The verdict on Friday represents a significant vindication for Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Twitter, a social media service he bought for $44bn a few months ago. The nine jurors reached their decision after less than two hours of deliberation, following a three-week trial that pitted Tesla investors, represented by a class-action lawsuit, against Musk.

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