FILE - Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Shares of Tesla and Twitter have tumbled this week as investors deal with the fallout and potential legal issues surrounding Tesla CEO Musk and his $44 billion bid to buy the social media platform. Of the two, Musk's electric vehicle company has fared worse, with its stock down almost 16% so far this week to $728. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)
FILE - Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Shares of Tesla and Twitter have tumbled this week as investors deal with the fallout and potential legal issues surrounding Tesla CEO Musk and his $44 billion bid to buy the social media platform. Of the two, Musk's electric vehicle company has fared worse, with its stock down almost 16% so far this week to $728. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday announced that his bid to buy Twitter is “temporarily on hold.”
Musk, who is Twitter’s biggest shareholder, tweeted that the deal is stalled “pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” on the social media platform.
In a subsequent tweet, Musk said he is “still committed to acquisition” of the company. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Musk’s tweets.
Last month, Twitter’s board of directors accepted Musk’s proposal to purchase the company for roughly $44 billion.
Musk’s potential takeover of Twitter has rattled the company in recent weeks. Twitter’s top lawyer cried during a meeting with her teams last month as she expressed concerns about how the company could change under Musk’s leadership, POLITICO reported.
Human rights groups have also warned about Musk’s buying of Twitter, asserting that policy changes by the self-described “free-speech absolutist” could result in an increase in hate speech and other harmful rhetoric on the social media platform.
Meanwhile, Republican politicians and conservative commentators — who frequently claim that Twitter places “shadow bans” on their content by reducing the visibility of their accounts — have embraced Musk’s takeover attempt.
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