Elon Musk seeks to buy Twitter for $43bn in hostile takeover

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Elon Musk seeks to buy Twitter for $43bn in hostile takeover
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Musk announced the offer in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday

Elon Musk has made a “best and final” offer to buy Twitter, saying the company has extraordinary potential and he will unlock it.

. The billionaire, who also controls Tesla, first disclosed a stake of about 9% on April 4. Tesla shares fell about 1.5% in pre-market trading on the news. After his initial stake became public, Musk immediately began appealing to fellow users about prospective moves, from turning Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters into a homeless shelter and adding an edit button for tweets to granting automatic verification marks to premium users. One tweet suggested Twitter might be dying, given that several celebrities with high numbers of followers rarely tweet.

In a letter to Twitter’s board, Musk said he believes Twitter “will neither thrive nor serve [its free speech] societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company”

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