The definition of shareholder doesn’t require that somebody hold the shares for a given amount of time. It’s clear that you don’t have sympathy for people who a

The definition of shareholder doesn’t require that somebody hold the shares for a given amount of time. It’s clear that you don’t have sympathy for people who aren’t long on Tesla stock, but that doesn’t change the fact that they were shareholders, and they were misled because Musk made false statements about the finances of his company to the public.