By The FirstBusinessman Elon Musk notified Twitter Friday of his intention to terminate a potential deal to purchase the social media giant.
“Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk’s requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information,” his lawyer states.
BREAKING: Elon Musk sends letter to Twitter seeking to end $44 billion deal, citing lack of info on bot accounts. https://t.co/pW5QDVgwCa
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 8, 2022
Elon Musk notifies Twitter he's terminating deal to buy it https://t.co/kTu6pWFdMW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 8, 2022
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