Elon Musk broke federal law with a tweet!

A federal appeals court ruled in 2018 that Elon Musk violated US labor law by tweeting that Tesla factory workers would forfeit stock options if they chose to unionize. Elon Musk has been a quit active Twitter users and his tweets basically shape many things, yet right now what it shaped is a problem. Business Insider reported that on Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that Musk made illegal threats regarding employee compensation.

Elon Musk broke law with a 2018 tweet

Tesla factory literally has miles of painted yellow lines & tape. Report about forklifts not beeping is also bs. These are both demonstrably false, but were reported as “facts” by Reveal.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 21, 2018

The tweet promptly drew the consideration of work activists, and in 2021, the NLRB, answering a grievance from the Unified Car Laborers association, found Musk had undermined representatives. Tesla has argued that Musk was using the tweet to make the point that employees at other automakers don't get stock options. Wilma Liebman, chair of the NLRB, saw things differently. She stated to Bloomberg in 2018: "The employee is going to hear it as, 'If I vote to unionize, stock options will no longer be an option.'"

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