INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Image copyrightGetty ImagesElon Musk says he has "no respect" for the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) financial regulator.He made
the comment in an interview with news channel CBS, in which he also talked about his controversial behaviour on Twitter.In September, the
SEC decided to sue him for alleged securities fraud.This followed a tweet in which Mr Musk wrote that he had secured funding to take Tesla
off the stock market and make it a private company.The SEC said the claim was "false and misleading".Mr Musk said he and Tesla had chosen to
settlement, he also had to step down as Tesla's chairman and was told that his tweets should be monitored.Days later, he took to Twitter to
mock the regulator, describing it as the "Shortseller Enrichment Commission" and praising its "incredible work".In a newly released
interview with CBS, he told reporter Lesley Stahl that he "preferred" not having a title but added that his tweets were still
unsupervised."The only tweets that would have to be, say, reviewed would be if a tweet had a probability of causing a movement in the
stock," he said."Otherwise it's, 'Hello, First Amendment,' he added, referring to the US right to free speech.Elon Musk is well known for
He described the social media platform as "a warzone"."I use my tweets to express myself
Some people use their hair, I use Twitter," he said.
