Musk To Make Drastic Changes To Twitter?

Written by Asley Simon OCTOBER 7, 2022

Elon Musk's $44 billion offer to buy Twitter (TWTR) has been revived, and he may try to make big changes to the 16-year-old microblogging network.

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Thursday, the Associated Press reported that Musk's lawyers said they wouldn't accept his new offer for the company.

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The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Twitter and Musk were discussing the arrangement and wanted to strike an agreement by Monday.

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Musk's text messages with billionaires, family members, investors, and Twitter officials can reveal how he aims to modify Twitter if he buys it.

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Musk's lawyers gave Twitter the messages as part of a lawsuit filed by Twitter to force him to keep the deal they made with him in April.

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Musk said Twitter didn't give him enough information about fake accounts or bots before he backed out.

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Twitter fought back by filing a lawsuit against the CEO. The lawsuit said that the CEO used the bots problem as an excuse to back out of the deal.

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The text messages show that before he agreed to buy the company, Musk was worried about bots, which can spread false information on Twitter.

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Musk considers charging for tweets to stop fake accounts in these texts. Musk has indicated he wants to make it easy for banned Twitter users like Donald Trump to return.

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In one text message, he said, "Would be great to lift permanent bans, except for spam accounts and those that openly call for violence."

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Before he closed the deal to buy Twitter in April, he sent a text message saying that Twitter would need "dramatic" changes.

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