Elon Musk Loses Bid to End ‘Twitter Sitter’ Deal With SEC (3)

Elon Musk may soon own Twitter Inc. but the billionaire won’t be able to shake his “Twitter Sitter.”

A judge on Wednesday rejected Musk’s request to ditch his 2018 deal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that required a company lawyer to screen all his Tesla Inc.-related tweets. The Tesla CEO, who appears to have clinched his bid to buy Twitter, had accused the SEC of harassing him and claimed the agreement violated his free-speech rights.

“Musk was not forced to enter into the consent decree,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman said in his written opinion. The ...