Elon Musk no longer wants to buy Twitter because of allegedly false information. Explosive text messages with his banker point in a different direction.
Delaware – In the legal battle over the acquisition of Twitter by the billionaire US entrepreneur Elon Musk there was an unexpected development. The legal team of the social media group wants the competent court in Delaware (United States) convince Musk that the Don’t deal on a large number of fake accounts on the platform – but because he was allegedly afraid of the third world war.
A news agency report Bloomberg According to Twitter attorney Bill Savitt, Tuesday (September 6th, 2022) produced a juicy text message between Elon Musk and one of his bankers as evidence. In the May 8 message, the Tesla and SpaceXfounders urged the banker to slow down the takeover process while waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech, in which he announced his decision to go to war on the Ukraine defended.
Elon Musk: Concerned about Putin and the world war
On May 9, not only Musk, but the whole world was looking forward to Moscow. Politicians and the media expected the Kremlin ruler to make a martial war speech – peppered with nuclear threats against the international community and the announcement of a general mobilization in Russia in order to gain the upper hand in the miserable campaign against Ukraine. However, the fears did not come true. Wladimir Putin held back when addressing the nation, seemed almost subdued.
The day before, Elon Musk is said to have worried that the situation could escalate beyond the borders of Ukraine and Russia. “It doesn’t make sense to buy Twitter when we’re headed for World War III,” the now 51-year-old wrote, according to the lawyers who Bloomberg quoted. With the text messages, Twitter is trying to refute the arguments of the entrepreneur, who had stated that he no longer wanted to buy the platform because the group had given false information about dummy accounts.
Elon Musk’s Twitter bid was set very high
It had previously become known that Musk had also brought up allegations from a whistleblower in order to withdraw from the deal. In a letter to Twitter, the electric car pioneer’s legal team said that the takeover bid was no longer valid due to allegations that Twitter had “egregious” deficiencies in the security and protection of user data.
Musk has been trying since mid-May to address Twitter’s allegedly false estimates of the number of spam and fake accounts. That’s why he stopped the takeover process, he said again and again. Critics of the billionaire believe that Musk used this tactic to drive down the price. His bid was $44 billion ($54.20 per share), Twitter’s market value is currently only around $31.5 billion – well below that. However, Twitter is demanding that Musk make his offer come true and take over the company for 44 billion. (tvd)
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