Not a lawyer but unless he's an employee of Tesla or otherwise got his information through his employment then he's not an insider for purposes of insider tradi

Not a lawyer but unless he's an employee of Tesla or otherwise got his information through his employment then he's not an insider for purposes of insider trading regulation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._O%27Hagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._O%27Hagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiarella_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiarella_v._United_States Which isn't to say the SEC wouldn't go after him. Cops arrest people in the US for photographing public things all the time, for instance. Just that if it went to court he'd probably win.