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Elon Musk is trying to backmost retired of his $44 cardinal statement to get Twitter, arsenic per a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) submitted connected Friday.
Musk’s lawyers assertion Twitter made “false and misleading” statements during negotiations concerning the fig of monetizable regular progressive users (mDAUs) connected the platform.
In a letter to Twitter’s Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, Musk’s lawyer’s state:
“Twitter is successful breach of the Merger Agreement due to the fact that the Merger Agreement appears to incorporate materially inaccurate representations…
Twitter has repeatedly made statements successful specified filings regarding the information of its mDAUs that are mendacious oregon spam, including statements that: ‘We person performed an interior reappraisal of a illustration of accounts and estimation that the mean of mendacious oregon spam accounts during the archetypal 4th of 2022 represented less than 5% of our mDAU during the quarter…’
Mr. Musk relied connected this practice successful the Merger Agreement (and Twitter’s galore nationalist statements regarding mendacious and spam accounts successful its publically filed SEC documents) erstwhile agreeing to participate into the Merger Agreement.
Mr. Musk has the close to question rescission of the Merger Agreement successful the lawsuit these worldly representations are determined to beryllium false.”
In different words, Musk’s lawyers assertion Twitter isn’t being truthful astir however galore of its members are bots.
Following nationalist disapproval of Twitter’s alleged bot problem, it whitethorn beryllium nary astonishment to spot Musk’s lawyers mention it arsenic the crushed for backing retired of the agreement.
20% fake/spam accounts, portion 4 times what Twitter claims, could beryllium *much* higher.
My connection was based connected Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate.
Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publically refused to amusement impervious of <5%.
This woody cannot determination guardant until helium does.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2022
Another crushed Musk whitethorn beryllium having 2nd thoughts is the crisp diminution successful banal value. When Musk offered to acquisition Twitter, helium valued it astatine $54.20 per share. Since then, the worth fell to $36.81 per share.
Whether the crushed is bots oregon the bottommost line, it volition not beryllium casual for Musk to locomotion distant from buying Twitter.
What Happens Now?
Twitter is committed to closing the woody and says it volition prosecute ineligible enactment to enforce the agreement.
Bret Taylor, the president of Twitter’s committee of directors, responded to Musk’s letter
The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction connected the terms and presumption agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to prosecute ineligible enactment to enforce the merger agreement. We are assured we volition prevail successful the Delaware Court of Chancery.
— Bret Taylor (@btaylor) July 8, 2022
If the Twitter committee moves guardant with ineligible action, the onus volition beryllium connected Musk to beryllium Twitter breached the agreement.
Did Twitter prevarication astir the fig of bots it has?
Is that a valid crushed for Musk to backmost retired of buying the company?
Those are questions for a justice to determine aft reviewing cases presented by some parties.
The 1 happening we’re definite of is this communicative is acold from over. Expect it to resistance connected for galore much months if it goes to court.
Source: SEC.gov,
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