Summary
In 2024, Elon Musk promised to give away [1 million voter giveaway
Plaintiffs claiming Musk’s 1 million voter lottery was a fraud are settling for an undisclosed sum.
The plaintiffs claim that when Musk announced the sweepstakes, he falsely claimed the prizes would be awarded randomly. Philadelphia’s District Attorney sued to stop the giveaway, claiming that Musk was running an illegal lottery. During a hearing, Chris Gober, a representative for Musk’s America PAC, told the judge that “The 1 million recipient today and tomorrow.”
That directly contradicted Musk’s claim that the drawings were random. The plaintiffs say they never would have signed the petition required to enter the giveaway if they had known it wasn’t random. They accused Musk and America PAC of using it as a ploy to obtain user data and said the petition “places no limitations on America PAC’s use of or sale of the personal data it collects, nor does it provide any additional information about the planned use of data.”