Elon Musk is formally trying to end his bid to buy Twitter. After hinting heavily that he no longer wanted the company in tweets attacking Twitter over its bot calculations and an ominous story this week reflecting his thinking in The Washington Post, Musk’s legal team is taking steps to terminate his $44 billion deal […]

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Elon Musk's legal team is taking steps to terminate his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. Musk is terminating the Merger Agreement because Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that Agreement. Musk had no apparent qualms with Twitter’s bot count prior to inking the deal.

Elon Musk tells Twitter he is killing the deal – TechCrunch

I knew it was all a manipulating tactic from the beginning , because the reason he gave for not buying twitter doesn’t wash, because he knew there were bots long time before he decided to buy it

Elon’s behavior is often like a Tesla on autopilot in a construction zone … all over the freaking place.

Wasn’t there a $1’000’000’000 guarantee on this deal? Does Musk now have to pay Twitter $1B in order to not buy it?

“Your lawyers are using these conversations to cause trouble. That needs to stop,” Musk’s text reportedly read. Musk sent the particular message after Twitter asked Musk how he would finance the Twitter deal.