Elon Musk arrives at the federal courthouse in San Francisco, United States, on March 4, 2026. He is facing a civil trial for allegedly manipulating Twitter's stock price ahead of his acquisition of the company in 2022. Did Elon Musk attempt to artificially inflate the user numbers of his social network X in anticipation of a possible listing? That is what prosecutors at the cyber section of the Paris prosecutor's office believe, Le Monde learned on Friday, March 20.