{"id":140232,"date":"2022-06-07T04:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/musk-will-drop-twitter-deal-if-data-on-bots-not-provided"},"modified":"2022-06-07T04:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:02:21","slug":"musk-will-drop-twitter-deal-if-data-on-bots-not-provided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/musk-will-drop-twitter-deal-if-data-on-bots-not-provided","title":{"rendered":"Musk will drop Twitter deal if data on bots not provided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musk-will-drop-twitter-deal-if-data-on-bots-not-provided.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new letter, Elon Musk threatens to walk away from $44 Billion Twitter deal if the management doesn\u2019t provide more data on total bot counts.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/0001418091\/000110465922068347\/tm2217761d1_ex99-o.htm\" title=\"letter\">letter<\/a> sent by Elon Musk\u2019s legal team to Twitter, \u201cTwitter refused to provide the information that Mr. Musk has repeatedly requested since May 9, 2022 to facilitate his evaluation of spam and fake accounts on the company\u2019s platform\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s effort to characterize it otherwise is merely an attempt to obfuscate and confuse the issue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also reminded that Musk does not believe the company\u2019s lax testing methodologies are adequate so he must conduct his own analysis and \u201cThe data he has requested is necessary to do so\u201d. The letter also said \u201cMr. Musk is entitled to seek, and Twitter is obligated to provide information and data\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new letter, Elon Musk threatens to walk away from $44 Billion Twitter deal if the management doesn\u2019t provide more data on total bot counts. According to a letter sent by Elon Musk\u2019s legal team to Twitter, \u201cTwitter refused to provide the information that Mr. Musk has repeatedly requested since May 9, 2022 to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2019,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-elon-musk","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}