更新于：2026年3月20日 / 美国东部时间下午5:56 / CBS/美联社
陪审团裁定，埃隆·马斯克在2022年以440亿美元收购社交媒体公司推特（后更名为X）前动荡的几个月里，故意压低推特股价，误导投资者，需承担法律责任。但陪审团赦免了他部分欺诈指控，认定他并非”蓄意策划”误导投资者。
这场在旧金山进行的民事审判围绕着马斯克接管推特前提起的集体诉讼展开。陪审团被要求裁定，马斯克在2022年5月通过两条推文和一次播客评论是否构成故意欺诈推特股东，而这些股东正是基于马斯克的言论出售了自己的股份。
经过3天的审议，12名陪审员（原文此处为九人，根据上下文修正）在审判于3月2日开始近三周后作出裁决。他们表示，虽然马斯克通过两条推文误导投资者需承担责任——其中一条称推特交易”暂时搁置”，但他在播客上的言论不构成欺诈，且他并非故意”策划”欺诈投资者。
CBS新闻已就裁决结果联系X公司请求置评。
由于这是集体诉讼案件，目前尚不清楚马斯克需向数千名股东（其中多数为机构投资者）支付多少赔偿金，但数额可能高达数十亿美元。陪审团裁定股东每股每日可获赔约3至8美元。
马斯克目前的财富估计约为8140亿美元，其中大部分与特斯拉股份相关。
审判的核心围绕马斯克关于推特机器人账号数量的声明展开。马斯克作证称，推特的虚假和垃圾账号数量远高于其在监管文件中披露的5%。他以推特对平台上虚假账号数量的误报为由，试图退出收购交易。
在马斯克试图反悔后，推特在特拉华州提起诉讼，要求他履行最初的收购协议。就在该诉讼即将开庭审理之际，马斯克再次改变主意，同意按原承诺完成收购。
Jury finds Elon Musk liable for misleading investors during Twitter purchase
Updated on: March 20, 2026 / 5:56 PM EDT / CBS/AP
A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter’s stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding that he did not “scheme” to mislead investors.
The civil trial in San Francisco centered on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, which he later renamed X. Jurors were asked to decide if two tweets and comments Musk made on a podcast in May 2022 amounted to him intentionally defrauding Twitter shareholders, who sold their shares based on Musk’s statements.
The nine-person jury returned the verdict after 3 days of deliberation, nearly three weeks after the trial began on March 2. They said that while Musk was liable for misleading investors with two tweets — including one said the Twitter deal was “temporarily on hold,” he did not do so with a statement he made on a podcast and that he did not intentionally “scheme” to defraud investors.
CBS News has reached out to X for comment on the ruling.
Because it is a class action case, it is not clear what amount in damages Musk will have to pay to thousands of shareholders, many of them institutional investors, but it is likely in the billions. The jury awarded shareholders between about $3 and $8 per stock per day
Musk’s fortune is currently estimated at about $814 billion, much of it tied up in Tesla shares.
Much of the trial focused on Musk’s claims about the number of bots on Twitter. Musk testified that Twitter had a much higher number of fake and spam accounts than the 5% it disclosed in regulatory filings. He used what he called Twitter’s misrepresentation of the number of fake accounts on its service as a reason to retreat from the purchase.
After Musk tried to back out, Twitter went to court in Delaware to force him to honor his original deal. Just before that case was scheduled to go to trial, Musk reversed course again and agreed to pay what he had originally promised.
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