Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk signaled that the $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter could ultimately go through if the social media firm would only provide him with data on user accounts and bots.
“If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms,” Musk wrote early Saturday in response to another Twitter user’s comment. “However, if it turns out that their SEC filings are materially false, then it should not.”
In response to a Twitter user asking whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was probing “dubious claims” by the company, Musk wrote: “Good question, why aren’t they?”…