Elon Musk pulls out of $44 billion dollar Twitter deal
Billionaire Businessman Elon Musk is no longer interesting in completing the $44 billion dollar deal to purchase Twitter.
This follows over three months of bidding and l negotiations to buy 9% of shares in the company.
The the owner of Tesla and Space X has claimed the Twitter board has failed to provide accurate information on the number of spam and fake accounts currently active on the app.
He has attributed this to the reason for pulling back on a deal in which he has already signed papers on.
The business Mogul was instructed to provide reasons for the delay in the sale of the company by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in May of this year.
He had put negotiations on hold to get accurate information backing Twitter’s claim that spam and fake accounts make up less than 5% of the total active users on the app.
The mogul’s lawyer indicated the company has refused to provide the information saying: “In filing Mr. Musk said he’d been refused information about the number of bot accounts on Twitter – which is why he wished to terminate the deal.”
The lawyer’s statement continued, highlighting the alleged “issue with fake accounts” his client was looking into. It continued: “Elon Musk has for weeks been trying to get information about how many daily users Twitter has. Twitter has a problem with bots. In fact, only yesterday it said it removed a million spam accounts a day.”
Elon Musk would pay a breakup fee of $1 billion dollars if the deal falls through. The board of Twitter has also threatened legal action to enforce the agreement of the deal signed by Musk and force the sale.