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Elon Musk Files to Exit Twitter Deal

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is exiting his multi-billion-dollar deal with Twitter over concerns about its spam bots, a newly revealed SEC filing shows. “While Section 6.4 of the Merger Agreement requires Twitter to provide Mr. Musk and his advisers all data and information that Mr. Musk requests ‘for any reasonable business purpose related…


Elon Musk Files to Terminate $44 Billion Twitter Deal

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is exiting his multi-billion-dollar deal with Twitter over concerns about its spam bots, a newly revealed SEC filing shows. “While Section 6.4 of the Merger Agreement requires Twitter to provide Mr. Musk and his advisers all data and information that Mr. Musk requests ‘for any reasonable business purpose related…


Elon Musk Walks Away from $44-Billion Twitter Deal, Twitter to Sue

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has filed to exit from his multi-billion-dollar deal with Twitter over concerns about its spam bots, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing shows. “While Section 6.4 of the Merger Agreement requires Twitter to provide Mr. Musk and his advisers all data and information that Mr. Musk requests ‘for any reasonable…


LIVE NOW: Elon Musk Terminates Twitter Deal; ‘No Evidence’ of Border Patrol Agents Whipping Migrants: CBP | NTD Evening News

Elon Musk has terminated his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by his lawyer. Concluding a months-long investigation into whipping allegations, Customs and Border Protection announced on July 8 that it found “no evidence Border Patrol agents struck any person, intentionally or otherwise.” * Click the “Save” button below the video to…


Elon Musk Terminates Twitter Deal; ‘No Evidence’ of Border Patrol Agents Whipping Migrants: CBP | NTD Evening News

Elon Musk has terminated his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by his lawyer. Concluding a months-long investigation into whipping allegations, Customs and Border Protection announced on July 8 that it found “no evidence Border Patrol agents struck any person, intentionally or otherwise.” * Click the “Save” button below the video to…


Twitter Lays off ’30 Percent’ of Recruitment Staff as Musk Takeover Fracas Continues

Social media giant Twitter laid off 30 percent of its talent acquisition team on Friday amid businessman Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover, according to multiple reports. Roughly a third of the talent acquisition team was affected by the decision, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch. Twitter employs more than 7,000 people globally and the layoffs impacted…


Twitter Says 5 Percent Bot Figure is Accurate, Removes 1 Million Spam Accounts Per Day

Twitter stock rallied as much as 3 percent after executives reiterated that spam bots represent fewer than 5 percent of users. In a conference call media brief on Thursday, Twitter officials told the press that the social network conducts manual reviews of thousands of accounts every quarter to come up with its 5 percent figure,…


Twitter Files Petition Against Indian Government’s Online Censorship

Twitter Inc. has petitioned an Indian high court to overturn the government’s content removal orders after the Indian government warned of “serious consequences” for noncompliance with such orders. The social media giant filed a writ petition with the Karnataka High Court on July 5 and sought judicial review of some of the content included in…


Elon Musk Queries Journalist Over Allegations of Govt-Driven Censorship on Twitter

Elon Musk has called on an independent journalist to provide information on how the U.S. government is allegedly pressuring Twitter to suspend the journalist’s account for posting anti-vaccination content. Musk asked Substack writer, Alex Berenson, in a July 6 post on Twitter, about Berenson’s allegation that the U.S. government had pressured Twitter to censor him for…


Elon Musk Queries Journalist Over Allegations of Government-Driven Censorship on Twitter

Elon Musk has called on an independent journalist to provide information on how the U.S. government is allegedly pressuring Twitter to suspend the journalist’s account for posting anti-vaccination content. Musk asked Substack writer, Alex Berenson, in a July 6 post on Twitter, about Berenson’s allegation that the U.S. government had pressured Twitter to censor him for…