SAN FRANCISCO — A jury has ​concluded Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors when ‌he disparaged the company in ⁠2022 ​in an ⁠effort to buy ‌the social ‌media platform for a lower ⁠price ⁠than his original $44 billion bid, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.

Jurors in federal court in ‌San Francisco ​found on Friday that Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders when he tweeted the social media network, which was later ​renamed X, ‌had ‌too many ⁠fake accounts and tried to back out of the deal, ‌the report added.