Elon Musk and Twitter: a timeline of the $44bn deal that threatens to crumble

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Elon Musk and Twitter: a timeline of the $44bn deal that threatens to crumble
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It’s been a long and winding saga for the social media company and the Tesla CEO, filled with threats, breaches and ‘poison pills’

is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in a statement posted to Twitter following the purchase.

The deal went through – and was approved unanimously by Twitter’s board of directors – but a $44bn purchase does not happen overnight. The purchase has to be approved by regulators and shareholders, and was expected to close in late 2022. “Twitter’s latest offer to simply provide additional details regarding the company’s own testing methodologies, whether through written materials or verbal explanations, is tantamount to refusing Mr Musk’s data requests,” said the letter from US law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

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