(Pocket-lint) - Elon Musk doesn't want to buy Twitter, according to a new report.
The Tesla CEO is officially backing out of his $44 billion agreement to purchase Twitter, The Washington Post has said. In a filing earlier this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk declared he is terminating the deal because Twitter is in a "material breach" after making "false and misleading" statements during negotiations.
"For nearly two months, Mr Musk has sought the data and information necessary to 'make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform'," Musk’s legal team said. "Twitter has failed or refused to provide this information". Keep in mind, weeks after he signed an agreement with Twitter, Musk claimed Twitter gave misleading statics about the number of spam bots on its platform. Now, Twitter's board chairman, Bret Taylor, has said his company will "pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement".
It's unknown if Musk can legally abandon his agreement due to the presence of spam on Twitter - something he could have looked into before making an agreement. Twitter seems to be very transparent about the issue, too. In June, Twitter even gave Musk the ability to analyse tweets, and it recently announced it is blocking over a million spam accounts per day.
Nevertheless, Musk thinks that Twitter has breached its agreement - and on top of that, Twitter recently laid off two top executives and instituted a hiring...
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