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Elon Musk Terminates Twitter Purchase Deal, Citing Material Breach of Agreement by Company Refusing to Provide Access to Data
Conservative Treehouse ^ | July 8, 2022 | Sundance

Posted on 07/09/2022 7:04:10 AM PDT by libstripper

Elon Musk has notified Twitter and the SEC [SEE LETTER HERE] that he is exercising his “right to terminate the merger agreement and abandon the transaction contemplated” due to the social media company not providing transparent access to background data that would allow authentication of “monetized daily active users” (mDAUs).

It appears that Twitter Inc did not want to reveal how Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop was able to sustain operations, at an extremely high cost, without making money. That’s the essential source of the issue.

The social media company did not want anyone looking at the data stream inside the communication platform. Musk was not allowed to authenticate the number of real users and identify the number of ‘spam’ or ‘bot’ accounts within the platform.

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Looks like Twitter and a number of other similar entities, possibly including Facebook, are primarily sustained through government subsidy and involvement. That means there was government censorship of the 2020 election that was prohibited by the First Amendment, and their basic form of organization is the same. The new Congress will need to investigate.
1 posted on 07/09/2022 7:04:10 AM PDT by libstripper
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Tweet executives will never disclose the enormous number of bots on the platform Bots are controlled and conservatives are banned


2 posted on 07/09/2022 7:07:51 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them)
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To: libstripper

Musk played a masterful game of chess here, but it takes a lot of resources to play games like this.


3 posted on 07/09/2022 7:08:17 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: libstripper

My money is on Elon.

I have had the thought that Twitter has a little CIA baked into their cake, along with that other magical ingredient, CCP.


4 posted on 07/09/2022 7:10:57 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: libstripper

More commentary here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4077091/posts

😅✌


5 posted on 07/09/2022 7:11:25 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: libstripper

Twitter will drop this. Musk will require discovery, and he’s no idiot to not have prepared for this. If Twitter stays at it, it will take two years of wrangling. By then, Trump will be in office and the FTC will be looking hard at their fraudulent misleading of investors.

Watch for this to quietly go away soon…


6 posted on 07/09/2022 7:11:43 AM PDT by Magnatron
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I don’t think this deal is dead by a damn sight. Twitter will sue him and he will get the information he sought in the first place in discovery. After some wrangling and eye poking a settlement will be announced where Musk buys for a lower price.

I’d say Twitter pays to make it go away, but my sense is that they don’t have the money. Also, if this falls apart, Twitter can’t survive the poop storm of shareholder suits it will be hit with.

Basically, this game was over the second Musk bid on them.


7 posted on 07/09/2022 7:18:32 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Magnatron

Musk, like Trump, is a savvy businessman and would never buy a pig-in-a-poke. I agree that Twitter and Facebook have government baked in the cake.


8 posted on 07/09/2022 7:20:10 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative (@Shegens on Truth Social 🐝)
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🤣That's really cute.

You still think Republicans will support the Constitution and stand up for us./sarc

9 posted on 07/09/2022 7:22:16 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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I have had the thought that Twitter has a little CIA baked into their cake, along with that other magical ingredient, CCP.

Heard that for years about Facebook too. I would guess it's the same clique, even if not the governments directly.

10 posted on 07/09/2022 7:24:22 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: libstripper

Musk can collapse their stock price, which will open a floodgate of shareholder suits. If nothing else, Musk has shown that Twitter is as fake as Biden’s 81 million votes.


11 posted on 07/09/2022 7:24:36 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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And if the numbers were inflated, then the advertisers have a fraud suit, which the new owner would have become responsible for settling.

there are lawsuits all around on this deal.

12 posted on 07/09/2022 7:24:59 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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......I think your theory re “watch for this to go away soon” MAY be on target. But, naively perhaps, I think Musk has at least a cup full of patriotism in his blood. Therefore he is aware and understands the THREAT to America that this subject represents. So, maybe, he will not walk away from it ???

Seth Rich was a young kid with no protection. Musk is a whole horse of a different color.


13 posted on 07/09/2022 7:25:41 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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I would not be surprised if we find out that Twitter is over 50% bots (fake users).

When I was on the platform, it was filled with users with names like @JohnBoy34494354

Come on, what real person would choose that as an online handle?

14 posted on 07/09/2022 7:25:47 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,441,806 active users on Truth Social)
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I think a lot of investors at this point pretty upset about the fraud within Twitter. So maybe thye will bring suit agaisnt Twitter. Hopsfully they do anyways.


15 posted on 07/09/2022 7:27:44 AM PDT by Bob434
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When I was on the platform, it was filled with users with names like @JohnBoy34494354

Come on, what real person would choose that as an online handle?


Richard Thomas?


16 posted on 07/09/2022 7:29:00 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Quentin Quarantino

CIA: Communist Infiltration Agency


17 posted on 07/09/2022 7:30:44 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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It’s more then Musk having grounds for a lawsuit.

Peddling phony traffic numbers inflates ad prices.

Which means Twitter was defrauding their customers.


18 posted on 07/09/2022 7:32:10 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: AndyJackson

It’ll cost him chump change to settle any claims, and in the end his actions will be proven brilliantly shrewd.


19 posted on 07/09/2022 7:36:06 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: AndyJackson

Absolutely!! Twitter was masquerading as a real company and mistook its immunity for content as a blanket. It is a house if cards that is about to fall. Selling to Musk with a hearty escrow might be their only way out. They are just to arrogant to see it yet.


20 posted on 07/09/2022 7:42:09 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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