{"id":50504,"date":"2022-07-15T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50504"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:28:42","slug":"sec-has-questions-for-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50504","title":{"rendered":"SEC HAS QUESTIONS FOR MUSK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sent a letter to billionaire Elon Musk last month asking for more information about a May tweet of his saying he \u201ccannot move forward\u201d with a purchase of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The SEC letter was sent before Twitter sued Musk on Tuesday in a bid to force him to complete his purchase of the social media company, which he backed out of last week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SEC agents are inquiring about a May 17 tweet in which Musk wrote the Twitter deal \u201ccannot move forward\u201d because of his concerns about how many bots are active on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the SEC, the tweet may have violated policies around the document that must be filed with the federal agency before the purchase of more than 5 percent of the shares of a public company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50505,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50504\/revisions\/50505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}