Twitter vows court battle as Musk pulls out of $44-B deal

Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world's richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44-billion deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement. Twitter chair Bret Taylor, in turn, said on the micro-blogging platform that the board planned to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. "The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk ... ," he wrote. In a filing, Musk's lawyers said Twitter had failed or refused to respond to multiple requests for information on fake or spam accounts on the platform, which is fund...

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