Elon Musk Twitter deal back on in surprise U-turn – BBC News

Billionaire Elon Musk has apparently changed his mind about buying Twitter, again, and is now willing to proceed with his takeover of the social media platform.

In a letter to the firm, Mr Musk agreed to pay the price he offered months ago before trying to quit the deal.

The surprise reversal comes just weeks before the two sides were due in court.

Twitter, which had sued Mr Musk to force the takeover to move forward, was seen as having the stronger case.

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[cjson]

Regardless of whether it's a good or bad, seems pretty clear where the BBC stands on the issue

[Starfieldman]

At the end of the segment BBC, journalists should keep to the facts and refrain from pushing there biased opinions!!

[googleisretarded]

What's with the editorialising at the end? The reporter should keep his opinions to himself and stick to the facts.

[mmc]

Did the BBC ever report the truth or did I just wake up.

[Nnchu]

ermm.. damaging for his reputation... that happened years ago.

[ArranMinshell]

Hate speech isn't a thing, free speech is. In this case, less moderation would be a good thing. Oppressing people because you don't like their views isn't good.

[alexludavertigo]

He didn't change his mind, he knows exactly how all these idiots will react to his moves. He was sticking it to someone shorting the stock or something like this.

[havaguday]

Musk scratches left buttock. Documentary at 11.

[michelandresbeck]

Less moderation means more freedom of speech.

[gabood]

“Less moderation” isn’t this a good thing the only thing they were monitoring was peoples thoughts, and thinking isn’t illegal. Yet

[SmileyHardstyle]

It’s not a surprise U-turn he waived due dilligence he was basically tied into the deal

[bananaempijama]

Oh look...Elon manipulating the market for the 1568th time

[sebastianguerre]

Intolerance of ideas and beliefs has been around for thousands of years. I think it's good for us to hear things that we don't want to be true occasionally, reality isn't always kind.

[SnapesHoney]

LMAO! He is such a troll! 😅😂
He made them insist on him buying them.
Twitter: "No, we don't want you to buy us! This will be catastrophic!"

Musk: "Okay, fine. I don't want you then." (Walks away)

Twitter: "OMG! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! You SAID you were going to BUY us! This is catastrophic! If you don't buy us we'll sue!"

Musk: "Okay, Okay... I'll buy you." (Smirks)

[audemarspiguet]

It’s as if he had another choice but to pay the initial price

[nickyblanchard]

Got too be market manipulation at this point

[junnarrcbz]

Why bcc and cnn is not talking about crices

[ravd]

It wasnt just about the bots, Twitter had no problem giving this information, Twitter got him in the corner exposing his texts, Musk's own fault for agreeing to buy at a higher valuation without doing any due diligence

[public.public]

That was predictable.
Drives the value down before buying it.

[lindapindabelinda]

The deal has always been on. The only thing he did was say enough bad things about Twitter that the price tanked. How many millions of dollars did he save with the stunt?