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Re:Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn u... by HWR_14 on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:57PM (#31077130)
Sure he did. The law recognizes his indirect control as possibility and all the SEC forms specify when they ask how much he controls they're including via those mechanisms.

I mean, if he owned some Google stock, and Google decided to buy 1% of Twitter, that would probably be different, because Elon wouldn't own enough of Google to make them do anything or even be aware of their investments. But if Tesla did, or he bought index funds that included Twitter, then yes.

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Re:Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn u... by maratc on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:28AM (#31081116)
I understand, thanks. Just wanted to be sure: did he have to necessarily fill out these forms before he said "I control x% of Twitter", or could it be that he didn't have to fill them out, and in practice didn't fill them out?
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Re:Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn u... by pas on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:53PM (#31090441)
it's possible that the filing has a few days deadline after the event
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