Judge forces Elon Musk to release full list of X shareholders
Crypto commentator and Easy Money author Jacob Silverman has convinced a US district judge to order Elon Musk to reveal the shareholders of X (formerly Twitter). The journalist intervened as a non-party in an unrelated California legal dispute involving Musk’s last-minute maneuvers in taking the platform private. Silverman explained his reasoning succinctly: “People should know who owns an important site for public discourse and whether its free-speech fundamentalist majority shareholder is doing business with censorious dictatorships.” According to the judge, Silverman prevailed in his request for public disclosure because he filed a timely request — “not enough delay to deny intervention under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(b)” — and did not prejudice nor re-litigate any issues that would have denied his intervention request. Instead, he permissively placed a valid legal burden on respondents that was “not onerous.” According to the judge, the list of Twitter sh...
