{"id":80114,"date":"2026-10-17T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/elon-musk-agrees-to-settle-lawsuits-over-2024-election-lottery\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:55:50","slug":"elon-musk-agrees-to-settle-lawsuits-over-2024-election-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/elon-musk-agrees-to-settle-lawsuits-over-2024-election-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk agrees to settle lawsuits over 2024 election lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-boosting billionaire was sued over promise to give away $1m per day to random signatories of petition<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> and his \u2060America Pac political action committee said recently that they agreed to settle two \u2060proposed class \u2060actions \u200balleging the billionaire entrepreneur defrauded residents in closely contested states before the \u20602024 US election by promising voters a lottery-style daily $1m giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs, Musk and America Pac \u200btold the \u200cjudge overseeing the two \u200crelated lawsuits in federal court in Austin, Texas, \u200con Thursday that they have reached settlements subject to court approval.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/oct\/17\/elon-musk-2024-million-dollar-promise-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-boosting billionaire was sued over promise to give away $1m per day to random signatories of petition Elon Musk and his \u2060America Pac political action committee said recently that they agreed to settle two \u2060proposed class \u2060actions \u200balleging the billionaire entrepreneur defrauded residents in closely contested states before the \u20602024 US election by promising voters &#8230; <a title=\"Elon Musk agrees to settle lawsuits over 2024 election lottery\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/elon-musk-agrees-to-settle-lawsuits-over-2024-election-lottery\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elon Musk agrees to settle lawsuits over 2024 election lottery\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}