{"id":5929,"date":"2022-06-07T21:38:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/07\/elon-musk-and-twitter-a-timeline-of-the-44bn-deal-that-threatens-to-crumble\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T21:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:38:44","slug":"elon-musk-and-twitter-a-timeline-of-the-44bn-deal-that-threatens-to-crumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/07\/elon-musk-and-twitter-a-timeline-of-the-44bn-deal-that-threatens-to-crumble\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk and Twitter: a timeline of the $44bn deal that threatens to crumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a long and winding saga for the social media company and the Tesla CEO, filled with threats, breaches and \u2018poison pills\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk on Monday made his most viable threat yet to walk away from a $44bn deal to buy Twitter, accusing the company of committing a \u201cmaterial breach\u201d by failing to disclose the number of bots on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was published on the website of the US financial watchdog on Monday. He had previously tweeted that the deal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/17\/elon-musk-twitter-deal-bot-tesla\">\u201ccannot move forward\u201d<\/a> until the spam and fake account issue had been resolved.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jun\/07\/elon-musk-twitter-timeline-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/66b040884ab6584cea0e7b3f5df4e425e17dbfce\/0_144_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d0af2290503eb7a139628aee4a2ec824\" title=\"Elon Musk and Twitter: a timeline of the $44bn deal that threatens to crumble\" \/>It\u2019s been a long and winding saga for the social media company and the Tesla CEO, filled with threats, breaches and \u2018poison pills\u2019<br \/>\nElon Musk on Monday made his most viable threat yet to walk away from a $44bn deal to buy Twitter, accusing the company of committing a \u201cmaterial breach\u201d by failing to disclose the number of bots on the platform.<br \/>\nThe letter was published on the website of the US financial watchdog on Monday. He had previously tweeted that the deal \u201ccannot move forward\u201d until the spam and fake account issue had been resolved. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a long and winding saga for the social media company and the Tesla CEO, filled with threats, breaches and \u2018poison pills\u2019 Elon Musk on Monday made his most viable threat yet to walk away from a $44bn deal to buy Twitter, accusing the company of committing a \u201cmaterial breach\u201d by failing to disclose &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/07\/elon-musk-and-twitter-a-timeline-of-the-44bn-deal-that-threatens-to-crumble\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk and Twitter: a timeline of the $44bn deal that threatens to crumble<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}