How is that not protected by the first amendment?

He was doing it fraudulently to make money.

I thought using bots in a misleading and inauthentic way was free speech. What about Elon's stock pumping twitter bots?

LPisGood 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That may be true by itself. However, misleading and inauthentic speech to make money is fraudulent and illegal.

	▲	hackernud3s 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> misleading and inauthentic speech to make money Isn't that just "marketing"?

nemomarx 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Who said those are legal? I'm sure that could be securities or wire fraud.

seb1204 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd like to read more about this court case