Elon Musk committed to offloading Tesla shares weeks before Twitter poll

Trading plan adopted 14 September

James Baxter-Derrington
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk had already set in motion a plan to sell more than $1bn of shares in the company weeks before he launched a Twitter poll, asking if he should offload stock.

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