Musk loses appeal of ‘Twitter sitter’ dispute with SEC over Tesla posts

A federal appeals court rejected Elon Musk’s challenge to his 2018 agreement with the the US Securities and Exchange Commission that required him to have his Twitter posts related to Tesla Inc. screened.

The court in Manhattan on Monday ruled against Musk’s free speech claims just days after a three-judge panel heard arguments in the case on Thursday.

Musk, Tesla’s chief executive officer and now the owner of Twitter Inc., had claimed that the agreement with the SEC violated the First Amendment to the US Constitution and that the agency was harassing him. The court quickly rejected those arguments in a seven-page order.