Engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and investor Elon Musk. File photoWASHINGTON, Jul 9Billionaire Elon Musk has notified Twitter that he is pulling out of a deal to buy the platform, according to a letter from his representative to the company. merger and abandon the transaction envisaged by it. The letter is a formal notification, representatives of the businessman emphasized. «Mr. Musk has reason to believe that the true number of false or spam accounts on Twitter is significantly higher than the «less than five percent» indicated by the social network,» the document says. According to the authors of the letter, this figure is «drastically low».
Musk compared the world and Orwell's dystopia , representatives of the businessman added. It is also reported that the platform management misled Musk when concluding the deal, and later «Twitter could not or refused to provide information.» According to the representatives of the businessman, the social network did not provide information about the process of checking spam and fake accounts, blocking them In addition, Musk is not satisfied with the materials provided on the financial condition of the company, Musk had previously offered $44 billion for Twitter, but demanded verification of the company's data that the number of «fake» accounts used, among other things, to send spam, did not exceed five percent.
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