News Media Reacts to Elon Musk Pulling Out of Twitter Deal

Elon Musk after trying to pull out the Twitter deal: pic.twitter.com/l3J4vqXTyn

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 8, 2022

Elon Musk is going to end up buying Twitter for $17 and a box of old Pokémon cards.

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) July 8, 2022

So Twitter lied about the percentage of its spam accounts. I hope Musk can come back with a super cheap offer reflecting Twitter’s true value, otherwise this platform will shadowban and manipulate the rest of its real users away. https://t.co/8taoBWH3Z0

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 8, 2022

Now that it appears that @elonmusk is NOT buying @Twitter, the platform is back to bottle capping my followers. For months, I gained no followers—until Musk announced his purchase, Then, miraculously, I gained 10K within hours. Now it’s back to suppression.#shameless#Twitter

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) July 9, 2022

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— David Mack (@davidmackau) July 8, 2022

Twitter made clear in its regulatory filings that the exact percentage of fake accounts was unknown. And Musk waived due diligence. Hard to see how this is anything but a hail-mary attempt to negotiate a settlement letting him off the hook

— David Lazarus (@Davidlaz) July 8, 2022

This is the most important tweet of the Twitter saga. Bret Taylor is Twitter’s chairman.

Elon Musk saying he’s not buying Twitter doesn’t end this. https://t.co/sMK1hs74FL

— Alex Sherman (@sherman4949) July 8, 2022

It's clear the purchase price was based on the number of actual users on Twitter. Elon Musk terminating the deal means Twitter does NOT tell the truth about it's numbers. Get ready for the ghost-banning and shadow-banning to ramp up now. @elonmusk #ElonMusk

— Joe Pags Pagliarulo (@JoeTalkShow) July 8, 2022

Twitter has not complied with contractual obligations related to disclosing fake accounts. It seems Twitter is “dramatically” understating proportion of spam accounts represented in active user count. Twitter has either ignored or rejected requests for further information. – Musk

— Eleanor Terrett (@EleanorTerrett) July 8, 2022

Tonight in two sentences, via CNN's homepage headline: "Musk tells Twitter he wants out of deal to buy it. Twitter says it will force him to close the sale" pic.twitter.com/LXSsWOTUoe

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 8, 2022