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Elon Musk's Twitter takeover expected to be agreed within hours (Sky News)

There is every chance that Twitter's board will have extracted an improved offer or terms from Elon Musk as an announcement on a deal is expected later on ...

According to the media outlet, both sides met on Sunday to discuss the proposal - and the social network "is more likely than before to seek to negotiate". Musk argues that the social network needs to be taken private in order to grow and become a genuine platform for free speech. He has offered to buy the social network for $43bn (£33.5bn) and placed the right to uphold free speech at the forefront of his argument for a deal, accusing Twitter of failing its users to date.

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Elon Musk comprará Twitter por unos $44.000 millones (WPLG Local 10)

El multimillonario Elon Musk llegó a un acuerdo para adquirir Twitter por aproximadamente 44.000 millones de dólares, informó la empresa el lunes.

Pero cuando Musk explicó los compromisos financieros que hizo para respaldar su oferta de 46.500 millones de dólares —y no surgieron otros compradores— la junta inició las negociaciones con él. Musk se describe como un “absolutista de la libertad de expresión”, aunque no ha aclarado exactamente a qué se refiere con eso. Sin embargo, el mismo Musk con frecuencia bloquea a usuarios de redes sociales que lo han criticado a él o a su empresa y ha usado la plataforma para amedrentar a reporteros que han escrito artículos en que lo critican a él o a su compañía.

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Elon Musk comprará Twitter por US$ 44.000 millones (CNN)

El acuerdo culmina un ciclo de noticias vertiginoso en el que el CEO de Tesla y SpaceX se convirtió en uno de los mayores accionistas de Twitter, se le ofreció ...

Twitter debe transformarse en una empresa privada". El acuerdo pondría al hombre más rico del mundo a cargo de una de las plataformas de redes sociales más influyentes del mundo. "Invertí en Twitter porque creo en su potencial para ser la plataforma para la libertad de expresión en todo el mundo, y creo que la libertad de expresión es un imperativo social para una democracia que funcione", dijo Musk en su carta de oferta a Twitter. "Sin embargo, desde que hice mi inversión, ahora me doy cuenta de que la empresa no prosperará ni cumplirá con este imperativo social en su forma actual.

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Twitter: ¿por qué Elon Musk se ha interesado tanto en tomar el ... (BBC Mundo)

El multimillonario sudafricano ha dicho que quiere ver más "libertad de expresión" en la red social, y que haya menos moderación.

En mi observación no científica, por cada tuit de bienvenida a Musk, parece haber otro que amenaza con irse. El principal modelo comercial de Twitter se basa en anuncios, y Musk quiere cambiar eso. Ya tiene mucho, y los multimillonarios pueden darse el lujo de tener diferentes prioridades. Elon Musk ama Twitter. Tiene una enorme audiencia de 87 millones de seguidores. ¿Cómo me atrevo a sugerir algo semejante? En un principio, la historia de Twitter y Elon Musk se siente como una historia de amor no correspondido.

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Why Twitter reconsidered Elon Musk's buyout deal (Quartz)

When Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion 10 days ago, the platform didn't welcome him with open arms. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is in some ways ...

Among them is Ben Thompson, the writer of the popular newsletter Stratechery, who believes that Twitter should go private—even if that means a transformation engineered by Musk, which could mean less moderation and more acrimonious discourse, as well as a larger focus on subscriptions. Twitter’s board had to justify rejecting a generous offer, more than 10% above the company’s current stock price. On April 21, Musk said he has the funding to get this deal done quickly.

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Twitter May Soon Announce It Really Is Selling Itself to Elon Musk (Daily Beast)

The Tesla mogul's $43 billion cash buyout looked Monday like it was going ahead.

Trump was banned after the Capitol riot and insurrection in 2021. However the stock rose 5 percent to $51.47 in pre-market trading Monday. Initially Twitter seemed poised to fight the takeover attempt with a “poison-pill” share offer that would have diluted Musk’s stake; however Reuters now says that the sale is likely to go ahead.

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Twitter podría cambiar bajo el mando de Elon Musk (New York Times en Español)

El director ejecutivo de Tesla ha criticado las políticas de moderación de contenido de Twitter y aboga por los algoritmos de código abierto.

Pero sus comentarios sobre la libertad de expresión han avivado la teoría de que Twitter, bajo su propiedad, podría reincorporar a Trump, a quien se le prohibió el acceso a la plataforma el año pasado. El exmandatario, conocido por publicar tuits en los que critica a opositores y, en ocasiones, anunciaba cambios de política pública, está tratando de iniciar su propia red social. La pregunta sobre Trump. Musk no ha comentado públicamente cómo manejará el asunto de la cuenta de Twitter del expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump que fue suspendida de manera permanente. El algoritmo. Libertad de expresión y moderadores de contenidos. Después de los disturbios del 6 de enero en el Capitolio, Twitter anunció que Trump había violado sus políticas al incitar a la violencia entre sus seguidores.

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Elon Musk Might Actually Buy Twitter, Like for Real (Gizmodo)

Twitter is gearing up to accept Musk's original $43 billion offer. Apparently he wasn't just trolling.

Musk first announced his offer to buy the social media company at around $54.20 per share on April 14. In premarket trading, they reached about $51.50 per share, but at the time of writing, had fallen to around $50.7. Although the deal is unconfirmed, both the Times and Reuters reported that sources tell them a deal could be finalized and made public later today. If Musk makes the purchase, Twitter would no longer be a publicly traded company, but instead, private. Important to point out though, it literally isn’t. The first amendment doesn’t protect anyone’s right to post on Twitter. Though Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, seemingly doesn’t understand that. Any moment now, a deal between between Twitter’s 11-member board and Elon Musk could be announced.

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Twitter's board said to be seriously considering Elon Musk's bid (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

Twitter may be moving closer to a deal with Elon Musk. The board of the social media service met Sunday morning to discuss Musk's unsolicited $46.5 billion ...

On Saturday, Musk took aim at billionaire Bill Gates because Gates had taken a “short” position on the stock of Tesla, which meant that Gates was betting the carmaker’s shares would fall. In a securities filing that was made public Thursday, Musk detailed how he had put together financing from the investment bank Morgan Stanley and a group of other lenders, which were offering $13 billion in debt financing, plus another $12.5 billion in loans against his stock in Tesla, the electric carmaker that he runs. Twitter’s stock rose above $70 a share last year when the company announced goals to double its revenue, but it has since fallen to around $48 as investors have questioned its ability to meet those targets. Twitter also adopted a “poison pill,” a defensive maneuver that would prevent Musk from accumulating more of the company’s stock. The board of the social media service met Sunday morning to discuss Musk’s unsolicited $46.5 billion bid to buy the company, after he began lining up financing for his offer last week, two people with knowledge of the situation said. But his proposal was quickly dismissed by Wall Street because it was unclear if he could come up with the money to do the deal.

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What will Elon actually do if he buys Twitter? (TechCrunch)

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