NEW ORLEANS — A federal court has concluded that a federal agency overstepped by mandating Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk to erase a 2018 Twitter post, which union leaders had interpreted as a potential threat to employees’ stock options. This decision stemmed from a divisive judgment from a federal appeals court.
The incident relates to a tweet from Musk during the United Auto Workers (UAW) organizing campaign at a Tesla manufacturing plant located in Fremont, California. This social media post appeared years before Musk acquired the platform, now referred to as X, in 2022.
On May 20, 2018, Musk stated in a
