埃隆·马斯克和他的电动汽车公司特斯拉成功清除了一项指控他们人为抬高狗狗币价格的诉讼。
A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused Elon Musk and his electric vehicle company, Tesla, of inflating the price of Dogecoin with their statements and actions, leading to a $258 billion pyramid scheme. The lawsuit, filed in June 2022, alleged that Musk and Tesla drove up the price of the meme cryptocurrency through a "pump and dump" scheme, ultimately defrauding investors who lost significant amounts after investing in Dogecoin, largely due to Musk's tweets.
一名美国法官驳回了一项诉讼,该诉讼指控埃隆·马斯克及其电动汽车公司特斯拉通过其声明和行动抬高狗狗币的价格,导致价值 2580 亿美元的传销。该诉讼于 2022 年 6 月提起,指控马斯克和特斯拉通过“拉高抛售”计划推高了这种 meme 加密货币的价格,最终欺骗了投资者,他们在投资狗狗币后损失惨重,这主要是由于马斯克的推文。
The plaintiffs claimed that Musk's statements, such as "One word: Doge," in a 2021 tweet, were aimed at attracting investors and artificially inflating the price of Dogecoin. The lawsuit also highlighted Musk's announcement that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin for merchandise, which they claimed further boosted its value.
原告声称,马斯克在 2021 年的推文中发表的言论,例如“一个词:Doge”,旨在吸引投资者并人为抬高狗狗币的价格。该诉讼还强调了马斯克宣布特斯拉将开始接受狗狗币作为商品,他们声称这进一步提高了其价值。
However, US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled on August 29 that Musk's social media posts were "aspirational" rather than "factual and susceptible to being falsified." In his dismissal, the judge stated that "no reasonable investor could rely upon them." This decision effectively clears Musk and Tesla from the lawsuit, which was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan) and is officially titled Johnson v. Musk, 22-cv-05037.
然而,美国地区法官阿尔文·海勒斯坦 (Alvin Hellerstein) 8 月 29 日裁定,马斯克的社交媒体帖子是“理想的”,而不是“事实且容易被伪造”。法官在驳回判决时表示,“任何理性的投资者都不能依赖他们。”这一决定有效地使马斯克和特斯拉免于诉讼,该诉讼已向美国纽约南区(曼哈顿)地方法院提起,正式名称为约翰逊诉马斯克,22-cv-05037。
The lawsuit had also accused Musk and Tesla of engaging in a "pump and dump" scheme with Dogecoin, but Judge Hellerstein stated that it was "not possible to understand" these allegations. Despite the dismissal, plaintiffs' attorney Evan Spencer expressed disappointment and said that they planned to appeal the decision. In response to the judge's ruling that Musk's statements were merely aspirations, Spencer argued that "Musk's statements and publications were far more than puffery, and a class of millions lost billions of dollars as a result."
该诉讼还指控马斯克和特斯拉利用狗狗币参与“拉高和抛售”计划,但海勒斯坦法官表示,“不可能理解”这些指控。尽管被驳回,原告律师埃文·斯宾塞仍表示失望,并表示他们计划对该决定提出上诉。针对法官裁定马斯克的言论仅仅是愿望,斯宾塞辩称,“马斯克的言论和出版物不仅仅是吹嘘,数百万人因此损失了数十亿美元。”