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U.S. court denies Elon Musk's bid to end SEC agreement on tweets oversight

Musk on Tuesday clinched a deal to acquire Twitter Inc for $44 billion

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Elon Musk's lawyers had sought to terminate the 2018 consent decree that resolved SEC securities fraud charges. (Bloomberg)

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A U.S. district judge on Wednesday denied Elon Musk's request to end an agreement with the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission for oversight over his tweets relating to Tesla Inc, the court ruling showed.

Musk on Tuesday clinched a deal to acquire Twitter Inc for $44 billion.
 
His lawyers had sought to terminate the 2018 consent decree that resolved SEC securities fraud charges and argued the regulator's pursuit of Musk "crossed the line into harassment" and impeded his constitutional right to free speech.

"Musk cannot now seek to retract the agreement he knowingly and willingly entered by simply bemoaning that he felt like

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