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		bananabreakfast on May 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A synthetic control causal analysis of Musk's twee... This is, in fact, the exact opposite of insider trading. No one working at Twitter is also working at Tesla. Ergo, no insiders. Anything that Elon sends to Twitter is instantly considered public knowledge and its data belongs to Twitter. If they delay his tweets to make trades that's well within their rights.

bearzoo on May 2, 2020 [–]

actually, I think this is exactly what misappropriation theory is supposed to account for. can you explain more around why it is well within their rights? I don't think it is.

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