{"id":6255,"date":"2022-07-08T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T07:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/08\/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-deal-in-serious-jeopardy\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T07:39:15","slug":"elon-musk-twitter-takeover-deal-in-serious-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/08\/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-deal-in-serious-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Twitter takeover deal in \u2018serious jeopardy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post says Musk team has stopped certain funding discussions as Tesla CEO questions spam account figures<\/p>\n<p>The planned takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk is in \u201cserious jeopardy\u201d, according to a report, sending shares in the company 4% lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s team has stopped certain discussions around funding for the $44bn deal, according to a report in the Washington Post, citing three people familiar with the matter. The report said Musk had concluded that Twitter\u2019s figures on spam accounts \u2013 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/17\/what-are-elon-musk-options-in-the-twitter-takeover-deal\">bone of contention<\/a> in the deal \u2013 were not verifiable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/08\/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-deal-in-serious-jeopardy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2ad8678fb87dbec28dd453bce056eb556004f421\/0_68_3000_1799\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f1464294c1ce9ab43b60ae7386505bcb\" title=\"Elon Musk Twitter takeover deal in \u2018serious jeopardy\u2019\" \/>Washington Post says Musk team has stopped certain funding discussions as Tesla CEO questions spam account figures<br \/>\nThe planned takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk is in \u201cserious jeopardy\u201d, according to a report, sending shares in the company 4% lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street.<br \/>\nMusk\u2019s team has stopped certain discussions around funding for the $44bn deal, according to a report in the Washington Post, citing three people familiar with the matter. The report said Musk had concluded that Twitter\u2019s figures on spam accounts \u2013 a bone of contention in the deal \u2013 were not verifiable. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post says Musk team has stopped certain funding discussions as Tesla CEO questions spam account figures The planned takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk is in \u201cserious jeopardy\u201d, according to a report, sending shares in the company 4% lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street. Musk\u2019s team has stopped certain discussions around funding for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/08\/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-deal-in-serious-jeopardy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk Twitter takeover deal in \u2018serious jeopardy\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6256,"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\/6255"}],"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=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}