A high-profile civil case is playing out in a San Francisco federal courtroom, with Elon Musk and financial claims around his acquisition of X, formerly known as Twitter, at the center of it.
Day one of what’s expected to be a two-week civil securities fraud trial took place Monday morning, and the big question is: Did Musk commit securities fraud when he tweeted about buying Twitter?
The high-profile defendant, Musk, was not present in court Monday morning, but the people who will decide his fate were.
NBC Bay Area’s Ginger Conejero Saab has the full report in the video above.