""100% a decoy. 100%," said David Morris, a frustrated yet impressed Bloomberg News photographer. "They had us. It was done very well, actually." The Tesla CEO was expected to arrive at the San Francisco federal courthouse on Wednesday to testify in a trial over a lawsuit brought by former Twitter shareholders. They alleged the billionaire violated securities laws in 2022 by driving down the share price of Twitter before he bought it and renamed it X."
"According to two photographers on a stakeout outside the courthouse, a Tesla pulled up on the curb, and security guards stepped out to surround it. As soon as the group of news photographers coalesced around the Tesla - anticipating Musk would step out - an SUV that had been parked a short distance away pulled up right in front of the courthouse door, the photographer said. Musk and his security team ran out of the car and up the courthouse steps, they said."
""He was like probably at least a hundred feet away from us," Morris said. "And then we noticed that. And it was like three seconds - out of the car, in the door." The photographers ultimately got only a handful of pictures of Musk, on the steps entering the courthouse and going through the metal detectors."
Elon Musk arrived at a San Francisco federal courthouse to testify in a lawsuit brought by former Twitter shareholders who alleged he violated securities laws by driving down Twitter's stock price before purchasing the company in 2022. Photographers stationed outside the building were deceived by a coordinated security tactic involving a decoy Tesla that drew their attention while Musk's actual vehicle approached the courthouse entrance. As cameramen focused on the decoy vehicle surrounded by security guards, Musk and his security team exited a nearby SUV and quickly entered the courthouse within seconds. The photographers managed to capture only limited images of Musk on the courthouse steps and passing through metal detectors.
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