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  "textContent": "Elon Musk artificially drove down the price of Twitter’s stock in 2022 with tweets claiming the social-media company — which he had already agreed to acquire — had underreported how many fake and spam accounts were on its platform, a federal jury found. The verdict was handed down Friday in a civil trial in California […]",
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