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Well, in breaking news overnight, Elon Musk is apparently considering whether or not to go forward with his Twitter deal. The reason for this is because apparently there is some sort of investigation going on into just how many accounts over at Twitter are fake, whether, in fact, a lot of their stats have been falsified for years about how many users they actually have. According to the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk is still committed to acquisition. He said this earlier this morning, but that came after a lot of speculation as to whether he's going to pull out of the deal. Elon Musk said his deal to buy Twitter was on hold pending details on the amount of fake accounts on the social media platform, raising questions

about the acquisition and sending shares of the messaging service down in pre-market trading,

which again shows you that Elon Musk now has the power to basically destroy Twitter if he

doesn't buy it. It's either Musk acquires it or the stock is going to take a significant hit

because it's pretty obvious.

The reason he would not buy it is because that company has not much going for.

Musk said from his verified Twitter account, Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending

details supporting calculation that spam fake accounts to indeed represent less than 5% of users.

Twitter shares were recently trading at 3845 in pre-market trading that's down 15% well below the 54-20-s share

where $44 billion must agree to pay for the company last month.

The tweet comes as many big stocks have been falling on Wall Street, including shares of Tesla,

which were down 29% over the last month.

The Wall Street Journal was suggesting that Musk might be using Twitter's recent disclosure

as a means to get out of or to renegotiate the deal, especially because, again, he promised $44 billion, and that was a share price that is way above what market price is right now for the shares.

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