Elon Musk Accuses Twitter Of ‘Actively Resisting’ Giving Him Bot Info

Elon Musk may be looking to back out of his Twitter deal.

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Or he might simply be looking to negotiating a better price.

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Elon Musk signed a deal to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share.

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On Monday morning, Twitter was trading for only $40 per share.

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On Monday, Musk’s attorney sent Twitter execs a letter.

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The Tesla CEO accused Twitter of “actively resisting and thwarting his information rights.”

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He called it “a clear material breach of Twitter’s obligations under the merger agreement.”

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Musk insists that he now has the right “to terminate the merger agreement.”

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He previously tweeted that the Twitter deal was “on hold.”

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