This is clearly not what happened, and never was planned to happen. The bonds don’t convert for another year. You don’t send a tweet about something that will

This is clearly not what happened, and never was planned to happen. The bonds don’t convert for another year. You don’t send a tweet about something that will immediately have a thousand people banging down your door for answers and expect it to move the stock price a year later. There was zero personal financial incentive for Musk to deceive with the tweet. As it happens, the criminal statute requires that a purchase or sale of securities takes place, so I can’t see how it applies.