A group of Dogecoin investors has requested leave to amend a class-action lawsuit against soon-to-be former chief executive officer of Twitter Elon Musk, alleging he manipulated the price of the meme token.
In a May 31 filing in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the investors claimed Musk used his social media following on Twitter as well as media appearances to profit off trades of Dogecoin (DOGE) through an “undisguised course of cryptocurrency market manipulation.” According to the complaint, Musk profited off DOGE trading at the expense of other investors by causing the price of the token to spike through actions including changing Twitter’s logo to the Dogecoin logo.
The investors filed their initial complaint in June 2022 — prior to Musk’s takeover of Twitter but following his initial interest in promoting DOGE on the social media platform — but have amended the lawsuit at least two times based on his actions. They requested leave from the court to amend their complaint alleging Musk was responsible for insider trading of DOGE, but also to claim the token was a security under the standards of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“This is a securities fraud class action arising from a deliberate course of carnival barking market manipulation and insider trading by the world’s…
