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Elon Musk sells $1.1 billion in Tesla shares to pay taxes after Twitter poll

By DW
11 November 2021   |   11:49 am
The world's richest man sold about 900,000 shares of his company Tesla after asking Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his stocks. But documents showed the sale was put in motion much before the poll.

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