Elon Musk settles lawsuits over $1 million voter giveaway

Elon Musk settles lawsuits over $1 million voter giveaway.

埃隆·马斯克就 100 万美元选民赠金诉讼达成和解。

Plaintiffs claiming Musk’s $1 million voter lottery was a fraud are settling for an undisclosed sum.

声称马斯克 100 万美元选民抽奖活动存在欺诈行为的原告方，目前正以未公开的金额达成和解。

In 2024, Elon Musk promised to give away $1 million a day to a randomly selected registered voter in a swing state. That prompted legal challenges, raised questions about its legality, and drew lawsuits from two Arizona residents claiming the lottery was a fraud. Musk has now agreed to settle the two lawsuits filed in Austin, Texas, though the details of the settlement have not been made public.

2024 年，埃隆·马斯克承诺每天向摇摆州一名随机抽取的登记选民赠送 100 万美元。此举引发了法律挑战，对其合法性提出了质疑，并招致两名亚利桑那州居民的起诉，他们声称该抽奖活动存在欺诈。马斯克现已同意就这两起在德克萨斯州奥斯汀提起的诉讼达成和解，但和解细节尚未公开。

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 recipients are not chosen by chance … We know exactly who will be announced as the $1 million recipient today and tomorrow.”

原告方声称，马斯克在宣布抽奖活动时，虚假地宣称奖项将随机颁发。费城地方检察官提起诉讼要求停止该赠金活动，称马斯克在经营非法彩票。在一次听证会上，马斯克旗下“美国政治行动委员会”（America PAC）的代表克里斯·戈伯（Chris Gober）告诉法官：“这 100 万美元的获得者并非随机选出……我们确切地知道今天和明天谁会被宣布为 100 万美元的获得者。”

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.”

这直接反驳了马斯克关于抽奖是随机进行的说法。原告方表示，如果他们早知道这不是随机抽奖，就绝不会签署参加该活动所需的请愿书。他们指责马斯克和“美国政治行动委员会”利用该活动作为获取用户数据的策略，并称该请愿书“对‘美国政治行动委员会’使用或出售其收集的个人数据没有任何限制，也没有提供关于数据计划用途的任何额外信息”。