The Tesla boss has already threatened to scrap the deal.
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new York A US newspaper report that the agreed takeover by tech billionaire Elon Musk was about to collapse has put pressure on Twitter on the stock exchange. The share of the short message service fell by more than seven percent after the trading day on Thursday. Most recently, the price was still almost four percent in the red.
The trigger was a report by the Washington Post that the ongoing conflict between Musk and Twitter management over the number of spam and fake user accounts on the platform was seriously jeopardizing the $44 billion takeover.
An anonymous source is quoted in the report as saying that Musk’s staff consider the information from Twitter to be unverifiable. His team stopped engaging in talks about financing the deal. The conflict over fake accounts is not new. Musk has already threatened to scrap the deal.