Elon Musk and Twitter have struck a deal for the world’s richest man to buy the influential social media platform, multiple outlets reported on Monday. The sale is for $54.20 a share, or around $44 billion in total. Negotiations between the two parties stretched into the early hours of Monday …
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Donald Trump says he won’t rejoin Twitter even if the social media platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, reinstates his account. The news comes as the former president struggles to promote his own social media app, Truth Social, which has been beset by issues since its launch. “I am not going …
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Elon Musk’s pursuit of Twitter continued Thursday with the Tesla CEO claiming in an SEC filing that he has raised $46.5 billion to fund the purchase of the social network. In the amended filing, Musk claims that Morgan Stanley Senior Funding and other “commitment parties” — including Bank of America, …
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Weekend Update tackled Elon Musk’s Twitter bid and President Joe Biden’s all-time low approval rating on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. “Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $40 billion so he could loosen its free speech rules,” Michael Che said. “That’s how badly white guys wanna use …
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The Jan. 6 committee on Thursday issued subpoenas to four behemoth tech companies over contributing to the “spread of misinformation and violent extremism contributed to the violent attack on our democracy.” The letters sent to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit signal just how broad the investigations scope has grown as …
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