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Court battle to open in Musk, Twitter buyout fight

Billionaire Elon Musk, who is celebrating his 51st birthday today has been the centre of many conspiracy theories.

Elon Musk said there are still a few unresolved matters with his Twitter deal including the number of spam users on the system and the coming together of the debt portion of the deal.

Alphabet Inc unit Google, Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and other tech companies will have to take measures to counter deepfakes and fake accounts on their platforms or risk hefty fines under an updated European Union code of practice, according to an EU document seen by Reuters.

Tesla founder Elon Musk, who recently inked a deal to buy Twitter Inc., has now threatened to walk away from the deal.

Tesla shares lost one third of their value since Musk disclosed his stake in Twitter in early April and sold $8.5 billion worth of Tesla stocks in a move seen to help finance his $44-billion Twitter deal.

An Indian woman's conversation with her father has gone viral on social media with many lauding the woman for what she did with a potential match that she found on a matrimonial website.

The social media company had 229 million users who were served advertising in the first quarter.

Twitter's efforts to deal with harassment, misogyny and misinformation might take a backward step under Musk.

Twitter's shares also slid on Tuesday, falling 3.9% to close at $49.68 even though Musk agreed to buy it on Monday for $54.20 per share in cash.

The California-based platform has been dogged by complaints from conservatives that it was biased against them

Agrawal also told employees there were no plans for layoffs.

Twitter has not yet decided if it will explore a sale to put pressure on Musk to raise his bid

SpaceX has sought regulatory approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to operate Starlink on airplanes and shipping vessels

Shares of Twitter fluctuated Thursday, finishing at $47.08, up 0.8 percent but far below the $54.20 price in Musk's offer.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in an interview with TED curator Chris Anderson, opened up about his hopes for the future and the reasons why he wants to buy micro blogging platform Twitter.

Musk is trying to nullify his settlement with the SEC, accusing the agency of harassing him with investigations.

Musk said he felt forced to settle with the SEC because banks threatened to cease providing capital if he did not do so

The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's suggestion of turning Twitter's headquarters into a homeless shelter received response from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well.

He can continue to amass stock and push for change without having to play nice with Twitter board members

Since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine on February 24, the authorities have stepped up censorship

Former US President Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social which was launched in February, has been termed a "disaster," by experts.

The investment is worth about $2.9 billion based on Friday's share price

Elon Musk who is infamous for his controversial tweets has now changed his Twitter name to Elona Musk after Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, called him effeminate.

"Samantha's Twitter account appears to have been hacked, someone changed her password."

His team accuses the SEC of "relentlessly" investigating the boss's tweets over the past four years.

Like Facebook and YouTube, the platform is regularly accused of not doing enough to fight misinformation.

Trump hopes Truth Social will help make up for his banning early last year by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

The Duke of York is acused of "rape in the first degree" in a New York court by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.