{"id":201194,"date":"2026-03-02T22:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201194\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:45:35","slug":"trial-on-elon-musk-xs-alleged-twitter-ruse-begins-in-sf-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201194\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial on Elon Musk, X\u2019s alleged Twitter ruse begins in SF \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Day one of what&#8217;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?<\/p>\n<p>The high-profile defendant, Musk, was not present in court Monday morning, but the people who will decide his fate were.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Bay Area&#8217;s Ginger Conejero Saab has the full report in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-profile civil case is playing out in a San Francisco federal courtroom, with Elon Musk and financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1611,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-201194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-elon-musk","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}